Re: [00/22] Cyclades PC300 driver: summary of patch series

Andrea Shepard [off-list ref] writes:

The Cyclades PC-300 is a line of PCI synchronous serial cards, which was
produced in single and dual port models with either T1/E1 or V.35 ports.
It used a Hitachi HD64572 (SCA-II) synchronous serial chip, and in the
T1/E1 models an Infineon FALC-LH line interface/framing chip.  Copies
of the hardware documentation may be found at [1].

BTW the V.35/V.24/X.21 version (i.e. non-T1/E1) are supported by the
pc300too.c driver. Or at least they're supposed to, I admit I haven't
used this kind of hw for several years (but can still test and fix, when
time permits).

Perhaps, just perhaps, merging T1/E1 support into pc300too.c would be
a better idea than dealing with Cyclades' old code.

The pc300too shares common SCA-II code with a driver for another hw,
pci200syn. I think it's been verified to work on non-x86-32 systems.

Esp. given this:

 * Patches 01 through 16 merge in version 4.1.0, and fix build, portability
   and style problems.  As of patch 16, the driver will build cleanly and
   will detect hardware, but not operate reliably.

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Krzysztof Halasa