Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:30:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Marcin Gryszkalis <mgryszkalis@cerint.pl>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: da driver problem? Message-ID: <20020809213003.A20020@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091208590.23518-100000@root.org>; from nate@root.org on Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:16:45PM -0700 References: <15700.4651.993515.112775@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091208590.23518-100000@root.org>
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:16:45PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > To be more specific, the Qlogic isp* cards ALWAYS require you to load > firmware to give full access to the drive and do anything useful. In the > x86 world, the isp boards only have enough code included on board to > manage int 13h for bootstrapping the OS and attempting to use them without > loading firmware is not defined. With the Qlogic 2xxx boards in > particular, NetBSD and FreeBSD won't even boot without loading the > firmware (kernel hangs after probing the card). Not true, in a generic sense. It depends on what the card has loaded in its flash as far as f/w goes. > Perhaps a comment should go into GENERIC above the isp entry saying to > be sure to enable ispfw_load? Or perhaps the hardware notes that go in > the release? 'man isp' -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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