Re: [9fans] Weird bug.

[Julian Back <jback@cix.co.uk>]

In article <20010312154951.5F453199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu>, 
jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com () wrote:

> On Mon Mar 12 08:27:55 EST 2001, DAGwyn@null.net wrote:
> > jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > > Secondly, the SB16 doesn't show up in the iomap output because the
> > > driver doesn't call the routine to register the space it uses.
> > > That's a bug we should fix but shouldn't affect the operation of the
> > > driver (assuming there is no actual clash with another device).
> > 
> > Hm, with a PCI-only motherboard, which is about all one can buy
> > these days, the nearest thing to a Plan 9-suppored SoundBlaster
> > seems to be the SoundBlaster-16 PCI, which like everything else
> > for PCI these days is plug-and-play.  Is there some way to make
> > this work on Plan 9?
> > 
> > Also, does the 3C905C-TM (PCI) work a a Plan 9 Ethernet card?
> > 
> > It's getting harder and harder to build an ISA PC..
> 
> If it is truly an SB-16 compatible then it's a matter of adding a
> handful of lines to scan the PCI bus for the card to make it work.
> But it can't really be compatible because the DMA must be completely
> different.

AFAIK the SB16-PCI is not SB16 compatible.  It's based on an ES1371 chip. 
The Linux driver for this card is completely different to the SB16 ISA 
driver.

Julian

> 
> The 3Com driver in the distribution requires some small fixes
> to work with the 905C, Jean Mehat <jm@ai.univ-paris8.fr> has them.