Hey Mark Cave-Ayland, I’m reaching out to you via email, as I think it would be a more convenient way to continue our discussion, considering the time difference.
Referring to our conversation over on the IRC: > So have you refactored the core of the LSI895A device into a separate device that can be used for both your LASI implementation as well as the existing PCI device? Yes, I have done so by breaking the NCR710 functionality down into the LASI wrapper from the lasi_ers manual and then the NCR710 core. The original code for the NCR710 came from the LSI895A hacked WinUAE implementation done by Toni Wilen, which I am modifying to work for NCR710. The LASI wrapper is my own code from scratch. Meanwhile, I also wanted to ask for the seabios-hppa, since seabios is primarily a x86 bios which supports PCI devices. So far, I have been trying to hack the seabios-hppa to support NCR710. My method of hackish approach is to just pass in required values from the bios to make it fake detect the NCR710 to bypass it. Is there a more robust way to extend seabios-hppa so it can properly work with a non-PCI device like our NCR710 perhaps similar to the approach used in SeaBIOS-HPPA’s src/hw/lsi-scsi.c? Thank you, Soumyajyotii Ssarkar
