Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

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

On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 21:08, Rene Brothuhn wrote:

> 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.

Wow, this sounds very promising, keep up the good work!

> 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.

Or endianness? Just to cover the usual suspects. :)


> 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).

As the other Rene mentioned in his post, it might only be a matter of
knowing the addresses of PCI config and memory space. But of course
vendor supplied information would always be appreciated.


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