Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> I only want to know if there are plans to support upcoming PCI-hardware for
> 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 only
> has to know, where the appropriate memory addresses will be. Mr. Dellert
> also said, that there is a Software coming with the G-Rex boards which
> solves exactly this question.
>
> Are there already plans for supporting the "new" hardware? Cause I want to
> keep my Amiga as only computer and therefore I want to buy an expansion for
> the A4000 enabling me the use of faster network cards, sound-, GFX- and
> TV-cards!
>
> Hope APUS won't miss these new developing direction of our Amiga!


well, supporting these PCI cards shouldnt be too much of a problem - it is
just finding where the PCI access point is in memory space (as such).
however there are 2 issues.

no APUS developers have such board (iirc!) and secondly there are quite a
few cards out there that are x86 centric.....ie the drivers have the wrong
bit order and x86 asm code .  those are, however , minor issues really ;-)

> I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders 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).
> I hope I'll have some good news leading in this direction soon!

I believe that Ralph Schmidt was already asked several times...and did
profer some info (to one indivisual iirc

alan