Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWS: SYM53C1010 and Ultra3 support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911250041000.7305-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199911242219.XAA84898@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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. I think thats why the conversation was about turning off support in the NCR driver for devices that the SYM supported; no support would be lost but the most efficient driver would be used for some of the newer chips. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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