Re: DEFPA FDDI card on PPC machines

Hi,
 Same thing happens on the macppc port, and I filed a PR on that.
Unfortunately, no takers :(

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=13566

Take care

Christopher
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Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: DEFPA FDDI card on PPC machines


> Hi.
>
> I mounted a DEFPA FDDI card in my IBM RS/6000 43P-100 (PPC/prep machine)
> runing NetBSD 1.6. At the moment when the first packet is transmitted
> the machine hangs. No panic, no core dump, absolutely nothing. It just
> freezes. Someone warnd me about that already some time ago. I decided
> to give it a try in the hope that 1.6 does not suffer from this bug.
> But no... :-(
>
> This is a "Should Never Happen" bug I will try to hunt. Any sugestions
> where and how to start? My first thought was to put several printf in
> sys/dev/ic/pdq.c (After studying the source and getting an impression on
> how it works.) in the hope to locate the "hot spot" closer.
>
> Are programming docs for the PDQ FDDI cards available somewhere? (I am
> also interrested to write the bus attachment for the DEFQA QBus PDQ FDDI
> card.)
> --
>
>
>
> tschuess,
>           Jochen
>
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