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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:28:04 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs), FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aic7xxx driver instability with the Quantum Atlas 
Message-ID:  <13440.854486884@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:00:41 MST." <199701282000.NAA08847@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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In message <199701282000.NAA08847@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes:

>Is there any possibility of determining the firmware rev from
>software?  Then when the queue full condition occurs, you could
>print a console log message that tells you to update the
>firmware.... or just print that message on a queue full, always, or
>for Quantums.

This can be done with a tiny shell script that looks at /var/run/dmesg.boot.

Nobody with their sanity still moderately intact would add stuff like 
this to the kernel.


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