Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:17:44 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr> Cc: Gerard Roudier <groudier@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf NOTES Message-ID: <20000903221744.A909@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009031909220.554-100000@linux.local>; from groudier@club-internet.fr on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:56:43PM %2B0200 References: <20000903154623.A715@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009031909220.554-100000@linux.local>
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:56:43PM +0200, G=E9rard Roudier wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: >=20 > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:29:52AM -0700, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > > groudier 2000/09/03 05:29:52 PDT > > >=20 > > > Modified files: > > > sys/i386/conf NOTES=20 > > > Log: > > > Add device list supported by `sym' > >=20 > > Hello Gerard, > >=20 > > Is there any need to document / test this in the Alpha world as well? >=20 > Indeed, the diffs can be merged with the NOTE file that addresses Alpha. Well, we don't have an alpha NOTES file yet ;-) > Do you really want to test all the chips of the list under all existing > Alpha variants ? :) No, but I just want to make sure I don't miss anything while documenting the alpha stuff. > They should work, given proper PCI BUS interfaces (bridge + kernel > interfaces), in my opinion. Pamela Delaney tested at LSI the 53C896 and > 53C1010 under Linux/Alpha on some Alpha machine and they worked well. I > donnot see why they shouldn't work as well with `sym' under FreeBSD/Alp= ha > (The recent SYM53C895A problem was a consequence of a kernel BUS interf= ace > difference regarding BAR resources identification). >=20 > Why duplicating such information in a per platform basis ? (the driver = is > documented in sym(4)) Please don't take it as an attack :-) The only thing is that the SRM cons= ole code on Alphas tends to support (for booting) different Symbios based adapters depending on which alpha machine model you have. Annoying, but true. Wilko --=20 Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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