Re: supporting the ncr53c720 fw scsi controller

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from BuSab:
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> Le 30/03/05 ` 09:58, Michael Shalayeff a icrit :
> > Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Graham Gower:
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> > > 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.

it's great to see so much interest in supporting it.
i'll lower it on my list then...

cu

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