Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:56:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: terry@lambert.org, gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aic7xxx driver instability with the Quantum Atlas Message-ID: <199701282156.OAA09151@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <13440.854486884@critter.dk.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 28, 97 10:28:04 pm
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> >Is there any possibility of determining the firmware rev from > >software? Then when the queue full condition occurs, you could > >print a console log message that tells you to update the > >firmware.... or just print that message on a queue full, always, or > >for Quantums. > > This can be done with a tiny shell script that looks at /var/run/dmesg.boot. > > Nobody with their sanity still moderately intact would add stuff like > this to the kernel. I was thinking of the install code, not the kernel, actually. No reason a console message has to originate from the kernel (syslog, et al.). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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