Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 19:13, Ren=E9 Thol wrote:

> I only want to know if there are plans to support upcoming PCI-hardware f=
or
> our Amigas used with Mediator or G-Rex. Concerning G-Rex I was told by Mr=
.
> Dellert (DCE) that writing drivers should be no problem, as the coder onl=
y
> has to know, where the appropriate memory addresses will be.

If that's true, adding support for it should be straightforward looking
at the existing PCI support for the B/CVisionPPC. Someone with the
hardware will have to do it, what about you? :)

> Mr. Dellert also said, that there is a Software coming with the G-Rex boa=
rds which
> solves exactly this question.

How so? They don't provide source code, do they?


> By the way are there any news concerning support of FASTLANE or even
> UW-SCSI?

There have been posts about the latter on the devel list lately which
looked rather promising.

> I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders final=
ly
> to support the UW-SCSI. He told me that he can't do anything concerning
> this point but asking Ralf (forgot the surname) and I was told to call hi=
m
> back later this week (tomorrow; today Mr.Dellert was not in house).
> I hope I'll have some good news leading in this direction soon!

That certainly wouldn't hurt, thanks for your efforts!


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast