From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 4 21: 4:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BE8153CF; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA18543; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:04:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912050504.VAA18543@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Wilko Bulte , gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP firmware compiled in as a default.... Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 21:04:16 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 19:47:18 -0800 (PST) Matthew Jacob wrote: > Nope, I don't think so. I pretty much always had been downloading f/w. > There was a hop skip and dance with some f/w and Chris's machine and some > stupid ass bugs in 7.55 f/w where you'd tell it to renegotiate and then > ask it what it had done and it lied and gave back random values. Actually, you used to compare "present firmware rev" with "driver firmware rev" and load the driver firmware if it was "newwer". Version numbering inconsistencies changed that policy... at least is how I remember it. > Nope- the netbsd changes list is too hard to read. Uh, okay, whatever. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message