Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:32:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: CAM cutover in two weeks. Message-ID: <19980415163242.H350@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804150146.SAA01812@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 06:46:47PM -0700 References: <199804150146.SAA01812@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 18:46:47 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > One of the major feature goals for 3.0 is the transition to the new > CAM-inspired SCSI subsystem. This transition requires a hard cutover > date. > > The proposed cutover date is the 28th of April. On or about this point > in time, the following steps will be taken: > > - A CVS tag will be applied to mark the last checkout date prior to > the cutover. > - The CAM code will be committed to the -current branch. > - GENERIC and LINT will be translated to suit. > - MAKEDEV will be updated. > - Non-CAM SCSI code and drivers will be *disabled*. Am I correct in taking this last item to mean that the old code will still be present? So if I build a -CURRENT kernel for my test machine (with aha1542[ab]s), using the old config file, it should still work in the old way? > If there are any significant issues (other than FUD) relating to the > proposed cutover, now is the time to raise them. When do we raise the FUD issues? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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