Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:24:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? Message-ID: <199902172324.PAA01535@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:53:59 MST." <4.1.19990217145000.04008890@mail.lariat.org>
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> >and we are still trying to complete limited qualification on > >them. We run OK on about half their range at the moment; the other > >half suffer from the "initialising fxp0 hangs" bug. > > Could this be due to probing, I wonder? IBM machines tend to have > weird hardware that responds badly to probes. It could be that > other drivers (which could be deactivated) are mucking up the > hardware. This used to happen with OS/2. No. You wire the pins from the 82558 to the PCI bus, and that's it. > >> For what would more money be used? > > > >Employing one or more developers to extend/fix our code to the point > >where we properly supported IBM's hardware, so that we could obtain > >qualification and thus move to the next stage. > > Heck, if they sent me a machine to play with, I'd do that just for > fun. Would you commit to producing results? They offer pretty good leasing deals, and if you were willing to commit to something, we might be able to fund the lease. The other issue is the IBM ServeRAID controller, again for which there is a Linux driver but no FreeBSD driver; this would need to be written from scratch. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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