Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Rene B. <re...@we...>]

Ren=E9 Thol wrote:

> By the way are there any news concerning support of FASTLANE or even
> UW-SCSI?
> I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders=20
> finally
> 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 =
him
> back later this week (tomorrow; today Mr.Dellert was not in house).


Hi!

I`m working on the UW-SCSI driver and I`ll give you some information=20
about it`s state. The 53c770 chip is detected and configured by the=20
driver and then the driver makes some tests, which works fine. The 4k=20
on-chip RAM is used for SCSI-SCRIPTS and the chip can execute SCRIPTS at=20
on-chip RAM and also at system-memory. The LED is working, which is=20
switched on and off by SCRIPTS in on-chip RAM when the scsi-bus is=20
selected or reselected. Also the driver is reacting on IRQ`s and calls=20
by the generic SCSI driver. After booting, you can find some information=20
about the driver in /proc/scsi/53c770.
And there is the problem, the generic driver tries to detect devices on=20
the scsi-bus and fails. I don`t know whats wrong here, maybe its another=20
cache related problem. But in this state I think there is no need for=20
help from Ralf Schmidt anymore (unless he has a working=20
linux-driver...). So let him work on MorphOS.

But by the way, I also thinking about to buy a G-Rex board and if I have=20
the time and money I will try to get it running on APUS. But there are 2=20
problems. First we probably need some information how we can scan the=20
G-Rex PCI-bus (maybe from Mr. Dellert). Second, if the G-Rex is in the=20
slot, the CV-PPC is not in the slot and so you probably have to work on=20
the G-Rex driver with AmiFb...


Ciao, Ren=E8