Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug

# Re: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
10 Jun 1999 02:06:54 +0200

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>>>>> "Werner" == Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch> writes:

Werner> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> There are: some Amiga video boards use little endian PCI video
>> chips connected through a hardware byteswapping Zorro<->PCI FPGA.

Werner> Another fun device is the Efficient Networks ENI155 ATM NIC
Werner> series: they have an SBus chip behind a PCI-SBus bridge. Of
Werner> course, probably 99% of the NICs they've produced are PCI
Werner> ... (which, fortunately, makes it quite unlikely that we'll
Werner> ever need to support the SBus original)

Oh, Alteon has an SBUS version of the AceNIC GigE card, with the exact
same chip on it as is on the PCI card. If I was to support that card
(I don't have any SBUS machines) I would prefer to use the exact same
driver code since the SBUS support would probably be like 10 lines of
code.

Jes

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