[Linux-ATM-General] Madge Ambassador and Horizon drivers

[Giuliano P. <giu...@gm...>]

Greetings.

I wrote these two drivers more than 20 years ago when I was employed at
Madge Networks.

The primary aim was for Madge to be able to use their client cards and
Linux for testing of their much more ambitious switch hardware. The latter
never went to market, I think, as the appetite for ATM to the desktop never
significantly materialised.

However, there were some HPC people out there who were keen to try out some
of the adapters with Linux on Alpha. So I had some fun with a Jensen box
and a PCI analyser at some point.

It was also fun getting things released as open source, though not the MIPS
assembly that originated the Ambassador firmware blob. The blob hex dump is
open source. :-) Apparently there is a cunning cell or work scheduling
algorithm in there.

Anyway, for the nth time, I am looking at my ancient hardware documentation
notes and wondering whether it's time to finally send them off for
recycling.

Does anyway even use this (PCI) hardware anymore?

Can I say goodbye to my notes? Can the drivers be removed for the next
version of Linux ATM?

And Werner, if you are still around, hi!

Giuliano.