Re: HP9000 K-Series support

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Hellmuth Michaelis:
> Michael Shalayeff wrote:
> 
> > > > > Now i need a driver for the built in Fast-Wide-Diff SCSI bus .. ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > i must be blind and do not see fwd in your dmesg?
> > > 
> > > Its not in the dmesg. I have no idea yet why, but i going to find out
> > > why its not there (and a couple of other cards which are in the K but
> > > do not display).
> > 
> > it's possible that it's behind the runway.
> 
> Its behind the runway. To verify it, i wrote a little piece of code and
> voila - it shows up:
> 
> "BC Runway Port, type 0xc [I/O Adaptor], sv 0xb" at mainbus0 (type c, sv b, hv 7
> ) offset ff88000 not configured
> ==> mbattach: [8] iostat = 0x40
> ==> mbattach: [8] io_io_low=0xfffff100 io_io_high=0xfffff180
> ==> mbattach: [8] ioa real io_io_low=0xf1000000
> ==> mbattach: [8] ioa real io_io_high=0xf1040000
> "Bus Converter Port, type 0x7 [Bus Converter Port], sv 0xc" at mainbus0 (type 7,
>  sv c, hv 11) offset 103f000 not configured
> "BC Runway Port, type 0xc [I/O Adaptor], sv 0xb" at mainbus0 (type c, sv b, hv 7
> ) offset ff8a000 not configured
> ==> mbattach: [10] iostat = 0x40
> ==> mbattach: [10] io_io_low=0xfffff180 io_io_high=0xfffff200
> ==> mbattach: [10] ioa real io_io_low=0xf1800000
> ==> mbattach: [10] ioa real io_io_high=0xf1840000
> "FW SCSI, type 0x4 [Type-A DMA], sv 0x89" at mainbus0 (type 4, sv 89, hv 51) off
> set 1800000 not configured
> "Bus Converter Port, type 0x7 [Bus Converter Port], sv 0xc" at mainbus0 (type 7,
>  sv c, hv 0) offset 1804000 not configured
> "Bus Converter Port, type 0x7 [Bus Converter Port], sv 0xc" at mainbus0 (type 7,
>  sv c, hv 11) offset 183f000 not configured
> cpu0 at mainbus0 offset ffa0000 irq 31: PCXT' L1-B 120MHz, FPU PCXT' (Tornado), 
> type 0x82 [FPU], sv 0xb rev 1
> 
> Its not recursive yet, i will have to make it recursive to get everything
> down in the busconverter/busconverter/busconverter/... path.

alright!
the linux's driver for the runway is ccio btw.

> The runway is obviously already initialized by the PDC.
> 
> These mechanisms are nowhere documented, (or are they ???) i discovered 
> them by looking at the Debian code and i wonder where _they_ got it from.

hp guys wrote most of the code.

cu

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    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)