Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:06:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: missing functionality Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004221704070.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004220100300.110-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > However, FreeBSD just went ahead with its first release to include > support for the MCA bus. The vast majority of MCA bus machines in > existence utilize ESDI because they predate the UDMA and ATA66 > efforts. If we are to support MCA, how can we drop support for ESDI? Well, right now there is no support for MCA ESDI controllers. The FreeBSD MCA support is rather limited right now and only implemented because I felt like it and wanted something to drive further newbusification of various ISA only drivers. I expect the MCA support to remain a novelty though I'm sure some users will deply production services on the boxes since they are quality hardware after all (only really slow). So don't try and bring MCA into the whole lack of support for BAD144/ESDI/MFM/RLL/foo. : -- | 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-current" in the body of the message
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