From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 06:37:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B6A16A417 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FA613C467 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:37:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-150-53.lns11.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.150.53]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9K6bF0u096880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:07:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:06:55 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <47192969.20809@samsco.org> <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com> In-Reply-To: <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2206601.YEh2UJsieF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710201607.11221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.216 () AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: ECEG / Daniel Duerr , d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:37:34 -0000 --nextPart2206601.YEh2UJsieF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Great perspective here, thanks for taking the time to respond. I > agree with you and believe that some attention should be put on the > hardware vendor driver side of things. It was *such* a pain to get > to the point where I could even install Freebsd on these machines. > And 3Ware RAID controllers are pretty standard IMHO. > > I've upgraded to RELENG_6 from RELENG_6_2 but I'm not at the data > center and I cannot chance a reboot with the twa driver not working > for me and the machine not coming back up. It is quite trivial to modify the install disk if you have another=20 =46reeBSD machine handy to build the kernel. You can just drop in the=20 module you want to /boot/kernel on the CD. Although I agree, it would be nice if you could more easily load vendor=20 drivers.. (ie if the module overrode the kernel code) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2206601.YEh2UJsieF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHGaIX5ZPcIHs/zowRAqrVAKCZZ00oxmJR9coAFO886uZxjjAKMACfYw/m uU+WhD9ccLd/bkA9Lw2I1wc= =4JxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2206601.YEh2UJsieF--