Saturday, February 14, 2004

President's Day Weekend work... This weekend is a 3-day weekend for me. Monday is a banking holiday, so I get it off from work. I plan to spend Saturday and Sunday doing some CoreAudio stuff (see my other project blog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0134505/categories/coreaudio/) and Monday I plan to wrap up work on the tulip driver for the next OpenDarwin release. Here's the current status of the driver. Chipset PPC x86 Results ADMtek 981 ? ? Same as ADMtek983, so it should work ADMtek 983 X X Works great! ADMtek 985 X X Works great! PNIC ? X 5V card won't fit in the 3.3V PCI slots of my G5 for testing PNIC2 My card is fried, so I can't test at all. :-( DEC 21143 MII X X Works great! DEC 21143 SYM X ? 64-bit card won't fit in my x86 box. Driver doesn't read the ROM correctly yet. Doesn't work to the point that it is usable until ROM code is finished. I recently bought an old Farallon card that has the DEC 21040A chipset on it from WeirdStuff.com, but it too is a 5V card and won't fit in the PCI slot(s) of my G5. I can fit it into my x86 box, but testing there is a lot harder for me since I can't use my mouse under X (the motherboard has a problem with the PS/2 controller). Anyway, all I really need to do is support reading the ROM format from this older card and the rest of it should just work. I'll tackle that after OpenDarwin 7.2.0 is released. 9:04:58 AM    comment []

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