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Re: FYI - HARP
We are actually interested in having the drivers maintained. We have the
hardware, but not the manpower to maintain the drivers. Perhaps we could
arrange something.
Lee A. Butler E-Mail: butler@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Attn: AMSRL-SL-BE Phone: (410) 278-9200
U.S. Army Research Laboratory DSN: 298-9200
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5068 FAX: (410) 278-5058
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the
air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
--- Justice William O. Douglas
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Joe Thomas wrote:
> Actually, the message was:
>
> >The two hardware drivers for the HARP ATM stack has been broken in
> >-current for a LOOOONG time now.
> >
> >If nobody are have sufficient interest in the HARP ATM stack to actually
> >fix these two drivers, we should retire the entire thing from -current.
> >
> >So consider this a "last call", if the drivers are not fixed by may 1st
> >the HARP ATM stack will be put in the attic.
> >
> >If anybody is interested in actively maintaining this code, I may be
> >able to find a donor for some ATM cards.
> >
> >--
> >Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> >phk@xxxxxxxxxxx | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> >FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> >Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
> >
>
> The key being "If nobody are have (sic) sufficient interest ..."
>
> As one of the original developers, I do have an interest in seeing
> this
> maintained. The problem has been that all of us have taken jobs elsewhere
> and the equipment we used is not available to us. I am in the process of
> trying to get my current employer to allow me to use some equipment here
> to continue this support. (Equipment being a PC and access to a FORE switch
> and/or other ATM testing equipment such as an ADTECH AX/4000) The two
> problems are one: it's of no direct benefit to them so I must convince them
> that
> it has no impact on my completing my "real" work, and two: the adapters we
> have
> here are not PC PCI based. Poul-Henning has mentioned that he's looking for
> someone to loan/donate a card or two to support this but until I get the
> okay
> here, I'm not going to pursue adapters.
>
> Joseph Thomas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harti Brandt [mailto:brandt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:16 AM
> To: Ben Wilkinson
> Cc: atm@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Service Classes
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Wilkinson wrote:
>
> BW>Hi,
> BW>
> BW>I am not a programmer either :( However I am interested in having these
> cards run SDH!
> BW>Has anyone implemented this functionality yet? Or maybe some more info on
> how I go about this?
> BW>
> BW>Ben
>
> No. If there is such a request I will implement it in my netgraph drivers
> for the HE and the PCA200. These drivers will be available in -current
> only and will use the netgraph ATM stack.
>
> Note, that there was a message last week, that HARP is going to be
> de-orbited in -current.
>
> harti
>
> BW>
> BW>"Christophe Prévotaux" wrote:
> BW>>
> BW>> oops I am not a programmer , I doubt I can succeed in making this work
> BW>> however since the PCA200E does not support CBR it does not fit my needs
> BW>>
> BW>> I think I will have to look at the prosum card or the marconi HE155
> cards
> BW>> but all these have Linux drivers but no FreeBSD drivers
> BW>>
> BW>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:24:41 +0200 (CEST)
> BW>> Harti Brandt <brandt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> BW>>
> BW>> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Christophe Prévotaux wrote:
> BW>> >
> BW>> > CP>how do you do this ? Could someone implement this function in
> BW>> > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD ? the purpose of this is simple : being able to
> BW>> > CP>configure SDH VCs and pass ATM over it or IP + MPLS, thus one
> would
> BW>> > CP>be able to have affordable Telco Grade Fiber infrastructure based
> on
> BW>> > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD systems , much much cheaper than what exists on
> BW>> > CP>the market at this time (unless I don't know about cheap ATM over
> BW>> > CP>SDH and IP MPLS over SDH hardware that already exists) , Of course
> I
> BW>> > CP>realize that I won't get ASICs based hardware performance for
> BW>> > CP>routing because I don't know of any PCI based switch fabric cards
> BW>> > CP>available and less about drivers for such cards.
> BW>> >
> BW>> > That's fairly easy: you have to write value 0x90 in SUNI register
> BW>> > 0x46 for SONET and value 0x94 for SDH. Implementing should be easy
> too:
> BW>> > make an ioctl that take a 32bit argument and inserts it into a
> command
> BW>> > block to the PCA200. The argument should have the form:
> BW>> >
> BW>> > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+
> BW>> > | 8 bits mask | 8 bits value | 8 bits regno | 0x87 |
> BW>> > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+
> BW>> >
> BW>> > and you would use 0xff904687 for SONET and 0xff944687 for SDH.
> BW>> >
> BW>> > harti
> BW>> > --
> BW>> > harti brandt,
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private
> BW>> > brandt@xxxxxxxxxxxx, harti@xxxxxxxxxxx
> BW>> >
> BW>> >
> BW>>
> BW>> --
> BW>> ===================================================================
> BW>> Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@xxxxxxxxxx
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