Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:34:29 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!) Message-ID: <19991208213429.28285@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <199912081402.PAA23215@freebsd.dk>; from Soren Schmidt on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:02:37PM %2B0100 References: <19991208072728.K44207@tar.com> <199912081402.PAA23215@freebsd.dk>
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On Wednesday, 8 December 1999 at 15:02:37 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:55:35PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> >>> In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs >>> i386 architecture. >>> >> >> Since the ata driver does not support DMA on my chipset, at >> least the last time I tried (SiS 5591), it would be nice >> to leave the wd driver in the tree for a while, even if its >> not the default. Possibly there are others in the same boat? > > OK, you asked for it, following is a patch to support the > sis 5591 chipset. Remember this is done blindfolded, I > have no HW to test on, but you guys do :) > > Let me know what happens... OK. Let's defer removing wd until we know that ata DMA works on these platforms. We'll have a lot of unhappy customers otherwise, myself (wearing another hat) included. If nobody else gets there first, I'll look at this next week. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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