Re: SCSI / PCI

From: Andy Valencia <vandys_at_nospam.org>
Date: Thu Jun 25 1998 - 15:34:27 PDT

[Brian J Swetland <swetland@frotz.net> writes:]

>Is PCI support in the works at all? I was about to take a crack at
>porting my BeOS BusLogic BT-9x8 driver (BeOS also uses CAM, making it
>a pretty simple task), and realized that I need to be able to detect
>and potentially configure the PCI card.

There was some PCI work quite a while back, which got far enough to map in
the card and run some of its code. I recall that there was a real problem
that the only rules for what BIOS-type code was allowed to do was basically
"if it works for Windoze...". The most interesting work was probably:

    http://www.zendo.com/vsta/mail/10/0009.html

Although PCI pops up here and there throughout the mail archives.

                                                        Andy
Received on Thu Jun 25 11:46:55 1998

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