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Subject: Re: Old stallion drivers in -stable.
In-Reply-To: <200011070026.eA70QxF28993@mass.osd.bsdi.com> "from Mike Smith at
 Nov 6, 2000 04:26:59 pm"
To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:27:58 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Carl Makin <carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>, stable@freebsd.org,
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Mike Smith writes:
> 
> I understand that Dima Ruban (copied) was working on this, but I haven't 
> heard anything from him recently.

I am, but I got somewhat distracted. But I don't have a _set_ of these cards.
All I've got is EC64 PCI, which wasn't initially supported by this driver.
So even when I fix the driver to work with a new bus, I can't guarantee that
it's gonna work of each and every card it was suposed to support.

> If Dima isn't having any success, and someone was willing to send me a 
> representative set of these cards, I would be happy to do the work
> (and I think that BSDi would be happy to sponsor it).
> 
> Please contact me off the list if you're interested.
> 
> > 4.1.1-stable still has the old version of Greg Ungerer's Stallion serial
> > card drivers. (v1.0.0)
> > 
> > Has anyone ported this driver to 4.x?  The v2.0.0 code at;
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.stallion.com/drivers/unsupported/FreeBSD/stalbsd-2.0.0.tar.gz
> > 
> > is for 2.2.x (and possibly 3.x)
> > 
> > I ran this code under 2.2.8 for quite a while and it was rock stable so it
> > is certainly good enough for inclusion in 4.x-stable.
> > 
> > 
> > Carl.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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-- dima


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