From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 10 12:09:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12946 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12892 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from dale.salk.edu (dale [198.202.70.112]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09324; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:09:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:09:17 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT in GENERIC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If a vote would help, I would vote in favor of this as I am getting ready to purchase a large server machine and I plan to use the DPT controller for RAID. It would be nice to be able to have a GENERIC kernel that I can count on reliably booting the machine during installation and in case of emergency. Tom On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > Is there any objection for the DPT driver being added to the GENERIC kernel > configuration and thus being available on the standard boot floppy? > > ``I do not know what/do not have a DPT controller'' is not a valid > objection. > > The DPT driver allows FreeBSD users the use of a family of SCSI RAID > controllers which are typically used in high end servers. For details > on the DPT hardware, see http://www.dpt.com. For information about the > driver, see http://simon-shapiro.org. > > If no one voices a valid objection, I am goingto ask for the change to be > comitted. The driver itself is in the 2.0-current source tree for over a > month now. the 2.2 equivalent is in final testing after vaving been > comitted last week. > > ---------- > > > Sincerely Yours, > > Simon Shapiro > Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message