New Amiga drivers coming for Linux 4.18

2018-04-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! As of today, two new m68k drivers have been merged into the staging trees of the Linux kernel. * zorro_esp [1]: This is a driver for SCSI controllers based on the NCR53C9x chip and compatible as it is found on the add-on boards by phase5 and others. This driver used to be part of the

Re: New Amiga drivers coming for Linux 4.18

2018-04-19 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Am 19.04.2018 um 23:26 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : > As of today, two new m68k drivers have been merged into the staging trees > of the Linux kernel. > * zorro_esp [1]: > * xsurf100 [2]: Woh! That’s really good news! The ESP driver not only powers some Cyberstorm card, but also A4

Re: New Amiga drivers coming for Linux 4.18

2018-04-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/19/2018 11:44 PM, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > I might be able to update my Amigas again… Thanks to everyone that were > involved! :) > > (I think, re-installing them will be the better option ;)) Please enable popcon on these machines so that our number goes up on popcon.debian.org. We're

Re: New Amiga drivers coming for Linux 4.18

2018-04-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Ingo, point of detail - WarpEngine is based on the NCR53c710, and supported by the zorro7xx module. The new ESP driver supports CyberStorm I and II, Blizzard 2060 (all recently tested by Adrian and Christian). Blizzard 1230 II and IV (last tested by Tuomas Vainikka a few years ago on an earlie

Re: New Amiga drivers coming for Linux 4.18

2018-04-19 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > What's not supported right now is Oktagon SCSI - in contrast to the > above, this card does not have a DMA engine. We have pseudo-DMA support > in the Mac ESP driver, but the Mac uses a 1:1 mapping of physical > addresses into kernel virtual spac