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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:56:42 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        phk@critter.dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aic7xxx driver instability with the Quantum Atlas
Message-ID:  <199701282156.OAA09151@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <13440.854486884@critter.dk.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 28, 97 10:28:04 pm

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> >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.

I was thinking of the install code, not the kernel, actually.  No
reason a console message has to originate from the kernel (syslog, et al.).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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