Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:56:58 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@netmonger.net, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912092356.AAA01850@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991209205701.D65692@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Dec 9, 1999 8:57: 2 pm"
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As Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote ...
> -On [19991209 12:00], Wilko Bulte (wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) wrote:
> >As Mike Smith wrote ...
> >> > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> >> > [there] were the SCSI drivers lost to CAM
> >>
> >> Actually, most of this is histrionics. CAM didn't lose us SCSI drivers;
> >
> >Not quite true: the esp driver for the alphas got lost. No attack on anyone,
> >just stating a fact.
>
> Another state of fact, until no-one finds it annoying enough to fix it
> it will be Atticised for quite some time longer.
True. No doubt.
> Apparantly the people whom caused a ruckus about losing some
> functionality when moving to better designed new driver framework
> weren't quite that bothered at all. Else we would've seen submissions
> for those drivers to be upgraded to the new framework. Luoqi is a prime
> example for aic. (If my memory serves me right.)
FWIW: I only discovered the esp thingy when I found myself with a
Turbochannel Alpha box. Not earlier. ;)
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