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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:34:55 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: asr on amd64
Message-ID:  <41E810CF.3010908@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <41E7BADC.2060104@anduin.net>
References:  <41E7BADC.2060104@anduin.net>

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Eirik Øverby wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Daring as I am, here's another attempt at having someone look into the
> asr driver and why it doesn't work on amd64.
> I have such a Zero-Channel RAID card laying around collecting dust,
> whereas it was planned installed in a server here long time ago.
> 
> I know Scott Long looked into it long ago, and he seems to have been the
> last one to touch the driver. He indicated a few months ago that he had
> little time; perhaps things look brighter now that 5.3 is out?
> 
> I'll cross-post to -current in a few days if I don't hear anything..
> 
> Thanks,
> /Eirik
> 

I'm still very short on time, unfortunately.  If someone wants to help,
the key is to replace all of the vtophys() calls with the appropriate
busdma infrastructure and then audit the code for 64-bit truncation
problems.  If only it was as easy done as it is said =-)

Scott



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