From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 08:35:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2F116A4DA; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:35:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31D443D55; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:35:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate2.punkt.de with ESMTP id k718Zo9J020421; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:35:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k718Zo6G067945; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:35:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k718ZoSZ067944; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:35:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:35:50 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: "Patrick M. Hausen" Message-ID: <20060801083550.GE64880@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20060731224403.T27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060801075159.GD64880@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060801075159.GD64880@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd Subject: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:35:53 -0000 Hello! On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me > the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they > were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have > to say about the GDT controllers. OK - so here's the deal: The GDT products are officially EOE (End Of Engineering). ICP Vortex will not provide capacity to update their own driver for FreeBSD 6. The new products will feature full FreeBSD support, eventually. (couple of weeks, he said) Technically, the ICP guy was quite confident, that ICP's own driver for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x didn't show the problems we have on FreeBSD 6 with the FreeBSD iir driver. He recommended using ICP's driver source as a reference when trying to fix the FreeBSD 6 driver. I'm not a kernel developer so I cannot really comment on this. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de