Re: supporting the ncr53c720 fw scsi controller

Le 30/03/05 ` 09:58, Michael Shalayeff a icrit :
> Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Graham Gower:
> [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > The impression I get is that no one with the ability to do this has
> > the desire and/or the hardware to do it.
> > 
> > If YOU would like to do this, try looking into the old lites project
> > http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-parisc/html/pamach.html
> > This contains some code for the 720.
> > 
> > There is a link to hardware info on the openbsd hppa page, but it
> > seems to have been down for some time now... Anyone got a copy
> > they'd be willing to share?
> 
> linux supports it.
> one can lift the changes from there

NRC53C720 is supported if used via Zalon.
If used via outfield, it's not supported.

http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/view.php?type=driver&name=Zalon
http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/view.php?type=driver&name=Outfield%20SCSI

I found some doc about NRC53C720 used in 735/125:
http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/docs/chips/hardball_ers.pdf

I would like to see this hardware supported too, since i've two 735/125
workstation and 14 harddrive FW-HVD.
I don't realy know how to write such driver but i'm reading docs and
source code. Maybe oneday i'll be able to write the missing code or help
to test and debug it.

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 BuSab