Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:46:14 -0600 From: Damon Permezel <dap@damon.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@inspiral.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec F950 fibre channel support ? Message-ID: <20010223184614.M21598@fubar.damon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102231628050.23814-100000@zeppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:31:15PM -0800 References: <3A96FF62.6DB1B2D9@inspiral.net> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102231628050.23814-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:31:15PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > None at present except some reported DPT support which I've never seen in > actuality. > > The F950 never shipped (I have one). That chipset is now owned by JNI (aka > 'emerald'). > > I have plans to get to 'RSN' the LSI-Logic chipset. I have no aggressive plans > to to try and cope with JNI (either Tachyon based or with Emerald). > > I have some interest in Emulex. However- Emulex (and JNI) has no interest in > FreeBSD- and barely some interest in Linux. If you can convince Emulex or JNI > to be more open with their specs and you can get them to cough up the h/w, I > can probably get some funding to work on this. > I have been offering Emulex for years now to do a free version of the driver for FreeBSD if they would allow me to use the info in the specs I have, and make the code available (plus some small hardware investment on their part). I think they always thought I wanted to use their source base, and they never really understood why I would not want to do so, so could not get their heads around the idea that I would write it from scratch. The Tachyon is a fun chip, but buggy as all hell. I'd much prefer to write one for emulex.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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