Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 23:19:13 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: groudier@club-internet.fr (Gerard Roudier) Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWS: SYM53C1010 and Ultra3 support Message-ID: <199911242219.XAA84898@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.991124215512.454A-100000@localhost> from Gerard Roudier at "Nov 24, 1999 10:17:36 pm"
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As Gerard Roudier wrote ... > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > > > According to Gerard Roudier: [...] > > support for certain cards has to be turned off in the older ncr > > driver, but I assume that can be conditionalized to happen only when > > the new sym driver is compiled in. > > The SYM driver needs LOAD/STORE SCRIPTS instructions to be supported by > the PCI/SCSI chip. > As a result, 810 rev < 0x10, 825 rev < 0x10 and 815 all revisions support > is dropped. LOAD/STORE have lots of advantages (I have detailed some in Allow me to make a remark here: where does that leave people with older *mainboards with embedded NCR chips* ? Might be not too interesting for Intel folks, but most likely *is* for the Alpha folks. Mind you, I have not checked this on my Alphas (and the one Intel with embedded ncr) but I have a *bad* feeling over it as they are older stuff. The 'lets throw away the old hardware' that reigns the Intel world is less applicable to the Alpha world. A driver that cannot accomodate older hardware is a step in the wrong direction here. Just my $ 0.02 W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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