Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:45:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName Message-ID: <20000510084529.A91343@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74D3@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 04:55:50PM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74D3@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 04:55:50PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > What is the date of your kernel? The `sym' maintainer just > > added suport for the NCR 810 chip. > > > Dunno the date, but it's the 4.0 Release iso image from ftp.FreeBSD.org. > With only 16Mb RAM I'm not going to build the world anytime soon. Ah. The `sym' 810 support was just added, so it is not in 4.0. > > I use the `ncr' driver on my AS 250 and have no problems with > > it. So it isn't like using `ncr' is a terriable thing. IMHO the > > comments beside `ncr' and `sym' in the GENERIC kernel > > configuration file tell this. > > Oh? It was my understanding that the ncr driver was to be replaced by the > sym driver at some point. I guess that's a while off then. I never thought it was supose to for legacy devices. But then Gerald surprised me by adding 810(non A) and 825(non A) support to `sym'. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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