Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:06:55 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating Message-ID: <200710201607.11221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com> References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <47192969.20809@samsco.org> <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com>
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--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--
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