From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Dec 5 1:38:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4871525B; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12534; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:39:25 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:39:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Chris G. Demetriou" Cc: Jason Thorpe , Wilko Bulte , gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP firmware compiled in as a default.... In-Reply-To: <8766yeasvh.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Matthew Jacob writes: > > Nope, I don't think so. I pretty much always had been downloading f/w. > > False. see NetBSD sys/dev/ic/isp.c: > > revision 1.18 > date: 1998/01/28 19:09:24; author: mjacob; state: Exp; lines: +9 -5 > Fix for port-alpha/4903- always download f/w unless config flags say > no or we have no firmware to download. > > and/or: > > http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=4903 False. Go to rev 1.1 of isp_pci.c && isp.c && asm_pci.h. F/W download was conditional only there being a fwlen of non-zero. You asked for a config option to turn off f/w downloads. Also, I started trying, at one point, to pay attention to the f/w revisions in currently running (i.e., loaded by SRM) f/w and not loading on top of that. The latter turned out to be a lose because the version numbers vary depending on what feature sets you have. It's also not clear where Digital's f/w (which they probably do themselves) fits in. > > > > There was a hop skip and dance with some f/w and Chris's machine > > [ ... ] > > yeah: before that patch, you _weren't_ always downloading the > firmware, and the DEC ISP firmware didn't work with your isp driver. > 8-) It does a better job now of working with older and different f/w sets. We're talking about two years of fooling around with this now since then, and while I'm kinda stupid, I *do* learn from experience. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message