Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-23 Thread Maxime Henrion
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. > > > > > > If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. > > > > There is 0 chance the vr(4) driver will work on sparc64, it uses

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-23 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. > > > > If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. > > There is 0 chance the vr(4) driver will work on sparc64, it uses > vtophys() for DMA and it doesn't l

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-23 Thread Maxime Henrion
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. > > If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. There is 0 chance the vr(4) driver will work on sparc64, it uses vtophys() for DMA and it doesn't look like it's endian-clean either. By the way, the ori

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-22 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Alan Lai wrote: > > freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile > > them for ultrasparc machines? > > is there

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-20 Thread Maxime Henrion
Alan Lai wrote: > freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile > them for ultrasparc machines? > is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? > if so, whats the work that i have to do? > please advice You first need to convert the card to use the bus

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-20 Thread Alan Lai
freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? if so, whats the work that i have to do? please advice is the freebsd-sparc kernel not open source? i cannot compile/custimize it

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-20 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Alan Lai wrote: > Hello, > > I am a newbie to freebsd, I want to clarify something before I get into > using it. > > I plan to put freebsd5 on a sun e250, this is a pci based ultrasparc > machine, but at the same time, this machine has a non-sun hardware,