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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:33:11 -0500
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Oliver Blasnik <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com>
Cc:        Jonathan Disher <jdisher@parad.net>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 for Sparc?
Message-ID:  <20021122123311.I12431@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <007101c29205$478ab680$2100a8c0@xpath1000>; from oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:58:08AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211650450.7141-100000@pasiphae> <007101c29205$478ab680$2100a8c0@xpath1000>

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Apparently, On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:58:08AM +0100,
	Oliver Blasnik said words to the effect of;

> Jonathan wrote:
> 
> > Ultra 2.
> > 
> > From a cursory inspection (i.e. drop CD in drive, boot cdrom, and try to
> > start sysinstall), fas (the SCSI controller internally) isn't supported.
> 
> Very interesting this is...
> 
> Isn't that chip an ordinary NEC 53c94 at SBus? Supported from OpenBSD with
> the esp(4) driver? If there is any HowTo on porting OpenBSD to FreeBSD
> SCSI drivers, I can take a look at it. But - I don't have an U1/U2 for
> testing this out. Any other Hardware where this controller is used?

It is.  Don't know if anything else uses the same controller.  Porting
the driver to FreeBSD is not as easy as it looks because FreeBSD uses
cam; there's no guide that I know of.

Jake

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