Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:00:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR810/Barracuda Question Message-ID: <199510231901.OAA01971@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199510231833.AA12365@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 23, 95 07:33:44 pm
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> } I would very much like to be able to install a new set of drivers without > } upgrading the OS. The machine in question is a production news server and > } taking it down is bad enough... doing an upgrade at the same time would be > } rather painful. Is there any way I could just upgrade the driver? (which > } files do I need?) > > The driver is completely cointained in "/sys/pci/ncr.c". > (There is a "ncrreg.h" file in the same directory, but > that has not changed since March '95 ...) > > Just get a new "ncr.c" and rebuild your kernel. Let me > know, if you encounter any problems. That doesn't quite work: daily-planet# make cc -c -O -W -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wredundant-decls -Wimplicit -nostdinc -I. -I../.. -I../../sys -I/usr/include -DDAILY_PLANET -DI586_CPU -DOPEN_MAX=256 -DCHILD_MAX=256 -DUCONSOLE -DBOUNCE_BUFFERS -DSCSI_DELAY=15 -DCOMPAT_43 -DPROCFS -DCD9660 -DMSDOSFS -DNFS -DFFS -DINET -DMATH_EMULATE -DKERNEL -Di386 -DLOAD_ADDRESS=0xF0100000 ../../pci/ncr.c ../../pci/ncr.c: In function `ncr_attach': ../../pci/ncr.c:3447: warning: implicit declaration of function `scsi_alloc_bus' ../../pci/ncr.c:3447: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast ../../pci/ncr.c:3453: structure has no member named `maxtarg' ../../pci/ncr.c:3457: structure has no member named `maxtarg' ../../pci/ncr.c:3471: warning: passing arg 1 of `scsi_attachdevs' from incompatible pointer type *** Error code 1 Stop. Ah well. :-/ I suppose we can wait for 2.1 to come out :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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