[parisc-linux] Lasi and Dino documentation!

[Grant Grundler]

Alex deVries wrote:
> 
> I'm very happy to announce HP's release of the two pricipal device
> controller chips inside the A180C, Dino and Lasi. 

Alright! (now I can talk about them!)

> Dino is the GSC to PCI bridge found on the A180C,

Also found on B, C, and J-class machines.
Newer B/C  (eg C200+) class have built-in PCI LAN/SCSI below GSCtoPCI.
So support is required to boot from built-in devices.

Also found on several networking HSC cards. Aka "Card-mode Dino".
Can be found in D, K and T-class. (eg. Dual Port HSC 100BT)

I'm very familiar with how this chip works and will try
to answer questions in my spare time.

grant

>Lasi is the
> SCSI/Lan/Parallel/Serial/RTC/PS2/floppy controller that's also found in
> the 712.
> You can find links for them on our documentation page,
>
> http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/documentation.html.
> 
> I've only scanned the docs, but they look quite complete at this point.
> 
> A big fat thanks is owed to John Sontag and all the others from HP who
> worked to get this documentation released. Releasing documentation that
> until now has been privately held is more proof that HP is committed to
> helping us with this port.
> 
> - alex
> 
> -- 
> Alex deVries <puffin@redhat.com>     
> Red Hat Contrib Net maintainer          
> Ottawa, Canada  
> PA RISC Linux Porting Team
> 
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