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From: Ulf Axelsson <ulf@ore.ims.se>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:

> > Hello!
> > 
> > My name is Christian Fischbach. 
> > <snip> 
> > So my question. Is anyone here working at a driver for this card?
> 
> AFAIK, it's been talked about, but not actively worked on.  I'd imagine
> that the changes needed to make the existing 1688 driver work with the 18xx
> cards would be reasonably small.  I considered doing it myself, but I simply
> don't have the time now.
> 

Unfortunately I have the same problem and never got started with the
actual programming. Although you might want to note that the es1868,
es1869, es1878 and es1879 are almost the same and should have a common
driver. The hardest part of this is not the actual driver. A lot of code
can be borrowed/shared with the es1688 driver. What isn't so easy is
the configuration part. It can be ISA-pnp, custom pnp or
pre-initialized.
Most of the docs available are concerned with this part of the chip.
Also I've seen no specs on the "enhanced" ESFM synthesizer.

/Ulf


