Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:42:04 +0100 (MET) From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> To: ml-linuxvme@vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de Subject: [Announce+RFT+RFC] VME for Linux (on some boards at least) Hi, I have put patches and tarballs in the following directory: ftp://vlab1.iram.es/pub/linux-vme/ this is a driver and more stuff for PPC and Intel machines using Tundra's Universe PCI<->VME bridge. There is already a driver for this chip floating around but mine is completely different since it also provides services to additional kernel drivers to access VME, register interrupt handlers, queue DMA opperations etc... A few examples of such drivers are available, actually one of my goals was to make writing board specific drivers as simple as possible and independant of the physical interface used to access the VME bus (there is at least another chip called Alma which is similar to the Universe but I don't even have the doc yet). However you should note the following: - people with Motorola MVME2xxx boards should rather look in the linux-2.2 directory since there are additional specific patches for these boards which improve on the default firmware setup (and a specific bootloader). - documentation is in progress, please bear with me while I finish it in the middle of numerous other things... - I have a couple of machines in production since 2 months ago without any problem which can be traced to the VME drivers (there was a bug in the application) - my only test platform is PPC. The driver was checked to work a few months ago on an Intel/VME machine but something will certainly be broken now. This should be minor however... - I certainly have forgotten some important facts which I wanted to state only five minutes ago, oh well... Cheers, Gabriel. P.S: the proper forum for this is ml-linuxvme, but this list is so silent that I decided to post this message to more active lists. Please trim the cc: list before replying. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/