Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:57:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaPC post-install BOOT - how? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911141254590.7635-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199911142012.NAA66094@panzer.kdm.org>
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> In any case, my guess is that when Gerard's driver goes into the tree, we > will not be getting rid of the current ncr driver. We'll either make it > optional, and make the current NCR driver the default, or adjust the probe > routines so that when the sym driver is present, the ncr driver will only > attach to the 810, 815 and 825. Probably ought to follow Gerard's direction and have his driver called 'sym' and the older driver retains 'ncr'. What I was *meaning* when I said what I said is that with a newer and better driver for the newer cards coming down the pipe, *don't waste money* buying older boards which are going to not be as well maintained, etc. *if* you have a perfectly good IDE interface. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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