Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Justin T.Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Subject: Re: A CAM of worms Message-ID: <XFMail.980426095955.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980423133037.29396B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On 23-Apr-98 Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > >> > There is certainly a migration path. Run a CAM kernel or don't. Most >> > developers I know have plenty of space to store two sys trees. As I >> > have stated to Julian several times, I will not polute the CAM code >> > with #ifdefs, or gratuitously rename controller driver file names or >> > "config names" just so you can build a kernel both ways. >> >> IMHO, with that attitude you can take the CAM stuff and go play >> somewhere else. Part of being a 'team effort' means making compromises >> so that everyone can work together. > > I don't understand what in Justin's "attitude" you've found offensive. > > The current SCSI layer has bugs. CAM fixes most of those and adds new > drviers. CAM is the future. It is time that we got past this. Hell, > even wcarchive uses CAM now (back-ported to 2.2) as it is just more > stable code. I think Nate's response migh have been a bit too strong. I interpreted the original posting as ``on the 28th of April, we stop supporting the current architecture and start supporting only CAM''. This interpretation appears wrong, but if it is a correct interppretation, it warrants a worry. With the state of CAM, as of today, FreeBSD functionality will be reduced severely - until all the missing pieces catch up; recoded, debugged, stress tested, stabilized, etc. That represents many weeks of hard work. I am not speaking for Nat, but he may share this concern with me. It appears that this is NOT Justin's intent. Now we will try to figure out a schedule for this thing. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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