On Tue 19 Feb, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:08:14AM +0000, Peter Bell wrote: > > Is there/is anyone working on drivers for the APDL Blitz IDE card, or > > would I have to make do with the slower Arcin card (for which I > > believe there is a driver),
I have the hardware info for the Blitz interfaces here waiting for someone to get enthused about writing a driver. I can lend you the relevant hardware too. APDL are (or least were a year or so ago) keen to help with info. Any volunteers? It would be nice to have this done. > > Does anyone intend to make a driver for the forthcoming Castle 100bT > > network cards (which use the SMSC LAN91C111 controller)? > Linux does have a driver that may be suitable for that chip; rather than > trying to merge the "expansion card" support into it, I think it'd be > better to create a separate version; its likely to require some specific > hacks. Again I have a few snippets on info on this. It should be a matter of using the standard driver but inferfacing to the chip in a slightly odd way (IIRC). > A few years ago, I was in touch with John Balance (sp) of Castle Tech. > Around that time, they weren't open-source friendly, and as such no > drivers ever got written for their cards. I don't know if they've > changed, but I'm willing to listen if they have. They have been helpful to me on this subject. I got info and test hardware for their storm cards and some info on the other cards (EtherSCSI etc). I also have kinetic card info. They are somewhat touchy about who gets to see what but are essentially helpful. Again, amyone with spare cycles for any of the following get in touch: Testing storm card SCSI driver (for 2.2.16 kernel) Updating said driver to 2.4 Adding kinetic support to kernel (needs to support mulitiple memory areas and restrict DMA to bottom few MB) APDL Blitz driver Some details and resources for the above are available here: http://www.armlinux.org/tasks/tasklist.html Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/armlinux/mailinglists.php Please visit the above addresses for information on this list.
