lekash@AMES-NASB.ARPA (John Lekashman) (09/09/86)
Hi there. two things: 1. I've been doing some work on an NSC hyperchannel device driver. I started with what was working on 4.2, and with help from Mike Karels at Berkeley, have got it working on 4.3 unix. Its available on ames-nasb in /usr/ftp, including 4.3 kernel changes, (to support raw access) cray research's cxint (yuk!) and hyroute (also yuk!) 2. While getting this working, I found many things about how it functions in need of repair or improvement. I am interested in starting a mailing list of people who use hyperchannels on IP nets. I want to see some sort of standard about encapsulation, routing, and raw access. We spent a great deal of time wretching about all sorts of things here, and finally everyone just copied what cray research had given us, since getting them to change was the hardest. If no one else is currently running such a list, I will. I have created hy-people, and hy-people-request at ames-nasb.arpa (orville). thank you, john