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Re: Probing nubus cards

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Per Ola Ingvarsson wrote:

> I'm trying to detect the PDS network card in my Performa so I took the
> bart.c file and made no_bart.c (unfortunate naming, perhaps) that
> registers itself as a nubus_controller if the machine is a Performa, but
> with none of the set_slot_disable etc. functions rally implemented, they
> just return.
>
> That made the probing start in nubus, but everything stops completely
> after "Trying bus space probe of fefffffe" and then "Trying inb". It can
> probe all the non-existing slots (9 to d), the hang comes when it comes to
> slot number e, where the card should show up.
>
> So now I'm wondering if the nubus probing works on PDM class machines,
> because I found an (old) webpage where it said that it doesn't
> (http://www.mklinux.org/articles/sr990529.html).

It doesn't work because I couldn't find a way to io_map memory and then
remove the mappings, which is required for NuBus to work. Feel free to
look into that. :-)


> If anyone wants it I can publish the no_bart.c file and the diffs on a
> webpage.

Sure.


David

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