Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/2795: Cyclades 8YO -- Not working under 2.1.6-STABLE (fwd) Message-ID: <199702250300.TAA13981@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/2795; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: Lewis De Payne <lewiz@netcom.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/2795: Cyclades 8YO -- Not working under 2.1.6-STABLE (fwd)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:51:38 -0800
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:36:36 -0800
>From: Marcio Saito <marcio@cyclades.com>
>To: Lewis De Payne <lewiz@netcom.com>
>Cc: Cyclades Technical Support <support@cyclades.com>
>Subject: Re: misc/2795: Cyclades 8YO -- Not working under 2.1.6-STABLE (fwd)
>
>Lewis:
>
>I think there was a misunderstanding.
>
>The Cyclom-Y driver has been in the FreeBSD kernel
>for a while.
>
>Some time ago, David Greenman *added* PCI support
>to the driver.
>
>By that time, 2.1.5 was the most popular driver. The
>driver in the ftp area (see README.FREEBSD) is only
>for 2.1.5 kernels.
>
>2.1.6 has all the support for the Cyclom-Y board
>already built-in.
Actually, both 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 support the ISA card, and *neither* version
support the PCI card. We did not fold the PCI changes into any 2.1.x release
(including 2.1.7) because they were far too extensive and included changes
to the devices in /dev as well (which would be a real problem for people
trying to do simple upgrades within the 2.1.x branch). It was easier to simply
tell people that need PCI support to get the cy_pci.tar.gz file, read the
README, etc...
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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