Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:56:58 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@netmonger.net, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912092356.AAA01850@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991209205701.D65692@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Dec 9, 1999 8:57: 2 pm"
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As Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote ... > -On [19991209 12:00], Wilko Bulte (wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) wrote: > >As Mike Smith wrote ... > >> > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > >> > [there] were the SCSI drivers lost to CAM > >> > >> Actually, most of this is histrionics. CAM didn't lose us SCSI drivers; > > > >Not quite true: the esp driver for the alphas got lost. No attack on anyone, > >just stating a fact. > > Another state of fact, until no-one finds it annoying enough to fix it > it will be Atticised for quite some time longer. True. No doubt. > Apparantly the people whom caused a ruckus about losing some > functionality when moving to better designed new driver framework > weren't quite that bothered at all. Else we would've seen submissions > for those drivers to be upgraded to the new framework. Luoqi is a prime > example for aic. (If my memory serves me right.) FWIW: I only discovered the esp thingy when I found myself with a Turbochannel Alpha box. Not earlier. ;) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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