From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 21 12: 2:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles519.castles.com [208.214.165.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86871582E; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03269; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911211952.LAA03269@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: mjacob@feral.com, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange panic on Alpha, SCSI disk *type* related In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:15:45 +0100." <199911211815.TAA42068@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:52:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Suggestion: a couple of lines in /usr/src/UPDATING explaining the kernel > options for the inclusion of the isp firmware might be practical I think. Matt also proposed having the loader deal with loading the firmware; I can think of a couple of ways to do this that are consistent with the way that we plan to do module auto-loading, and which ought to work in the manual context as well. I guess I need to talk to him about this sometime when we get around to the autoloading implementation. *sigh* So much to do... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message