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Date:               Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:54:28 GMT+0100
From:      "Kees Jan Koster" <Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:         Re: SOYO SY-30F2 blues
Message-ID:  <4605EF72A8A@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com>

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> Datum verzending: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:09:52 +0200 (MET DST)
> Van:              Stefan Esser <se@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
> Aan:              Kees.Koster@aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com
> Onderwerp:        Re: SOYO SY-30F2 blues

> Kees Jan Koster writes:
>  > > 
>  > Do you happen to have an ftp pointer? I have very limited internet 
>  > access, sorry. My motherboard is a SOYO SY-30F2 with an Award Modular 
>  > bios v4.50G.
> 
> Sorry, no. I have no idea whether Soyo offers new
> BIOS versions from an FTP server. ASUS does, and
> AFAIK Tyan as well. It would be interesting to have
> a list of vendors with their BIOS upgrade policy in
> the FreeBSD handbook, I guess.
>
Hmm. I'll pester my shop into telling me.

> 
>  > > Sorry, but there is hardly any generic way to solve 
>  > > your problem in a device driver. I can send you a 
>  > > fix, which will modify the NCR address to any value
>  > > you choose, but you will have to compile that address
>  > > into your kernel, which precludes its use on other
>  > > FreeBSD systems. (Ok. I can make it dependent on the
>  > > specific characteristics of your system, but there 
>  > > will never be an official version that includes that
>  > > patch.)
>  > > 
>  > Yes please, that patch would be extremely welcome. I tried to hack 
>  > the kernel to do that, but I found I don't know enough about the pci 
>  > handling stuff to do so.
> 
> Ok. I'll prepare it for you, but it will take some 
> time to get it done. Sorry, but I have very little 
> spare time, currently.
> 
Want some of mine?
Thanks for your trouble. I'm sort of planning to get me a nice 2.1.5 
cdrom anyway, so I'll add your patch then.



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