Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:31:56 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, 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: <20020809213156.B20020@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091218000.67834-100000@beppo>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:25:22PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091208590.23518-100000@root.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091218000.67834-100000@beppo>
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:25:22PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, 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). > > This isn't always the case. Also, if this is the case, where's the PR? Don't > start rumours, please. > > ore precisely, there is f/w in flash that either the BIOS (x86) loads into > the card SRAM and restarts the microsequencer. There is no clear spec where > that f/w actually *is* in flash else I'd pull it out in the driver and load it > myself. This is why in many cases it is really best to load firmware via > ispfw. > > On alphas, SRM loads f/w into SRAM for models it understands. This is even > more of a problem because for a Digital thought they knew better about doing > isp f/w, so the f/w sets loaded cannot demonstrably be proven to even comply > with QLOgic'c f/w interface specs. Interestingly we always got the firmware from Qlogic. And threw quite a few Qlogic attempts at f/w in the bin before releasing a version. Ah well, ever after flashrom was invented f/w writer have become sloppier... -- | / 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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