Re: EN/SC (was: NetBSD 8.0 on a Mac LC III)

John Klos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> In any case, I'd still be interested in working on an EN/SC driver 
> assuming it's not unreasonable to wrap an existing DP83902 driver around 
> SCSI accesses in NetBSD.  But if I'm developing something new to provide 
> Ethernet access to older machines, it probably makes more sense to start 
> with a higher level control strategy to minimize the transactions, so 
> backwards compatibility doesn't really make sense here.  Plus, I'd be 
> insane to try to directly replicate the register set of the DP83902 just 
> for compatibility with older drivers.

Perhaps this might help, if you haven't seen it before:

https://www.netbsd.org/ports/pc532/faq.html#cabletron-ethernet

It wouldn't surprise me if the more common Mac products were very similar 
or the same.

John
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