Re: Kernel hacker for Debian m68k hardware needed

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> LinuxTag is a great place to meet all kind of developers. So, I think it
> might be worthwhile to ask if there will be some interested people to work
> on helping the m68k port of Debian.
>
> The story so far:
> - Debian project bought an 060 accelerator card ealier this year to be
> able to setup another buildd/developer accessible machine. Crest is quite
> often loaded as being the only public machine for DDs to logon. Kullervo
> is restricted and accounts are granted on request, though. This is where
> the new machine should jump in.
>
> - the card is a Wildfire060 card for the Amiga 2000 series. It has (and
> this part is important ;) as well SCSI as Ethernet onboard. The card is
> known to be the best and fastest accelerator board for the Amiga. The
> memory bandwidth is significantly higher than on the accel board in crest
> and kullervo.
>
> - unfortunately, the card is not yet supported.
>
> - the card carries a PCI bus itself to which the NIC and SCSI controllers
> are connected. This should give excellent performance while leaving as
> much CPU for the user as possible.
>

What bits are exactly unsupported ? The PCI host bridge or the PCI NIC
and PCI SCSI controller chips ?

Cheers,

Peter (p2).