Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:54:54 -0500 From: Bruce Vandiver <76350.1227@compuserve.com> To: Trushar Zaveri <ad903@torfree.net> Cc: tech_help_drivers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: the Future Domain TMC-16XX Message-ID: <199803020555_MC2-352C-B90@compuserve.com>
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>I picked up your email address from the newsgroups a little while ago >because I saw you were trying to get drivers for a bunch of Future Domain >SCSI cards you have. I have the TMC-1680-SVP in my old old ancient 486 >machine, but I have a bunch of old narrow SCSI disks that I want to use on >that machine (make it a storehouse kind of thing) >anyway, most of that is besides the point... have you gotten anywhere >with the leads you were given? I know a couple of people offered to help >you integrate the modified AHA-2920 driver back for support of the >TMC-18C30, and if you *did* get it to work (or if you didn't) could you >let me know? I've banged my head against the kernel a bit, but I'm no >programmer unfortunately, and I cannot get the kernel to compile if I try >to get the card support in. >looking forward to hear what you have to say about it. >Thanks in advance! Hi Trushar: I have had offers of help, but no action. It seems easy to give lip service to the subject, but action is another matter. Here are some of the comments I have received: (you may already have read this) >Hello Bruce. I've been a FreeBSD user for more or less 4 years now and am >interested in trying my hand at some kernel coding. I have been following >your posts in -hackers with a fair amount of interest, since I have a >Future Domain card that was donated to me by someone who upgraded and am >interested in putting this hardware to use. I think that incorporating >the driver into FreeBSD might be something good for me to gain some >experience. I have taken the driver that Bob Bishop mentioned and >integrated it into -current on my test machine and I have it talking to >some SCSI devices. I don't have much to test it on, since I have only IDE >HDDs and not many SCSI peripherals. Reading raw code + little experience >with device drivers + little experience at low level SCSI = a non-trivial >task. However, I'm willing to give it a try. - K.C. From: kfurge@worldnet.att.net >If you'd like, I'll be more than happy to send you the tutorial I threw >together on starting to write device drivers. Unfortunately, this is how >device drivers get written. Someone with the device, and interest to have >it supported (read: You) lays their hands on the programming documentation, >does much trial and error learning the driver interface, and then writes >the driver. From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> >You appear to be failing to appreciate that FreeBSD acquires >new drivers because people go out and develop them, and then >contribute them to the project. >There isn't a Driver Development Lab with lots of people and >money that's studiously ignoring your requests while playing >Doom and chugging Jolt and pizza. I wish there was; I'd be >begging for a job there myself. > >I would strongly suggest that you should study the Linux source that >you have, and the source for a similar ISA SCSI adapter driver, and >begin your own development. I do seem to recall someone mention that >they had documentation for the controller you are asking about on the >shelf; perhaps you should search the archives at www.freebsd.org for >a reference here too, as such documentation would be very useful. > >Please feel free to post questions regarding your development to the >list, as we do try to encourage new contributors whenever possible. >Regards, Mike. From: msmith@freebsd.org >There already is a driver, which only has not been imported >into the CVS tree, since it used source files spread out all >over the kernel tree. This was going to be resolved shortly >(as of December 1996 ;-). >I may be able to dig out the sources, and you will have to >stuff them into the correct directories and modify some of >the files used to configure the kernel. >But it may be better to ask *Joerg Wunsch* to make up his mind >how to import that driver into -current ... Regards, STefan. From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> * BTW - (joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de) or (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) >> Have a look at >> http://www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rmike/freebsd/welcome.html which >> contains an 18c30 driver ported for the AHA2920. It also contains the >> original tmc18c30/ISA support which may well work with your cards. >>From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > >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. Will anything come of all this? I really don't know. For now I'm using Linux. I remain hopefull, but I am pretty much in the same shape as you. If you get any good news, please copy me on it. Thanks in advance! Regards; Bruce Vandiver 76350.1227@compuserve.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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