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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:52:59 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, johnc@geekopolis.com
Subject:   Re: I2O 
Message-ID:  <19990712085259.4DDD281@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 03:35:00 EST." <19990712033459.A10956@futuresouth.com> 

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Tim Tsai wrote:
>   I asked about this recently.  I believe Simon Shapiro is working on I2O
> support for FreeBSD, in order to support DPT I2O drivers.
> 
>   Tim

I was told that he was not only working on it, but had all but finished and
had I2O disk support pretty much complete.  The whole I2O concept doesn't
fit within CAM as I understand it - all the scsi processing is offloaded.
 
> On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 09:09:11AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > 
> > > "John T. Croteau" <johnc@geekopolis.com> wrote:
> > > >Is anyone working on, or at least looking at, I2O (http://www.i2osig.com
    )
> > > >support for FreeBSD?
> > > 
> > > Last I heard, the I2O standard was not open - it was available only
> > > under NDA and/or in exchange for a bucketload of money.
> > > 
> > > Unless this has changed recently, just cross any I2O motherboards off
> > > your shopping list.
> > 
> > I thought the Linux folks were working on drivers. I seem to remember Alan
> > Cox (the other one) working on I2O drivers fairly recently.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au



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