Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 07:49:29 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the Future Domain TMC-16XX Message-ID: <199803240649.HAA04651@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199803020555_MC2-352C-B90@compuserve.com> References: <199803020555_MC2-352C-B90@compuserve.com>
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Bruce Vandiver <76350.1227@compuserve.com> wrote: >>But it may be better to ask *Joerg Wunsch* to make up his mind >>how to import that driver into -current ... Regards, STefan. Well, i never made up my mind about it, really. The architecture of all this is a mishmash that would drag into our tree a number of NetBSD low-level SCSI routines, where everything is organized ``just a little different'' from the FreeBSD low-level SCSI stuff. (In case anybody wonders, all this came from NetBSD via PAO.) >>Well I never. If anyone out there is using this driver, can we have >>some feedback? If it works and appears to be maintained, we ought to >>incorporate it... > From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> > > I am especially interested in the comment "If it works and appears to be > maintained, we ought to incorporate it..." From Bob Bishop. Well, it sorta worked when i tried it. It had some problems with error recovery (i've got a faulty adapter that completely hangs the kernel, as opposed to simply fail probing, and continuing to boot). The driver no longer compiled under my -current system as of about a month ago, so i had to disable it on my only machine i've got such an adaptor. Sorry, i'm out of time to maintain this driver myself right now. The guy who sent me the driver (whose name escaped me right now) would probably maintain it, but he indicated me that he doesn't have the technical skills e.g. to rewrite it enough to fit into the FreeBSD way of doing things either. Together with the advent of the CAM subsystem, i'm not sure whether it's the right time to import it (but i wouldn't mind if someone did it, *and* maintained the driver later on). Btw., there's a snapshot of it on the 2.2.5 CD-ROM, in /xperimnt. I've even provided an installation floppy there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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