From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 23 02:54:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA03380 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 02:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.philips.nl (ns.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA03374 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 02:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id LAA23957 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:54:06 +0200 Received: from unknown(192.26.173.32) by ns.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with ESMTP id sma023935; Tue Jul 23 11:53:39 1996 Received: from aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com [130.144.70.193]) by smtp.nl.cis.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.9z-02May95) with ESMTP id LAA27494 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:56:02 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (nlnmg01 [130.144.80.6]) by aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.993a-08Jan96) with ESMTP id LAA03400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:51:57 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01/MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (Mercury 1.21); 23 Jul 96 11:54:37 +0100 Received: from MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01 (Mercury 1.21); 23 Jul 96 11:54:37 +0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" Organization: Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:54:28 GMT+0100 Subject: Re: SOYO SY-30F2 blues Reply-to: Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <4605EF72A8A@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Datum verzending: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:09:52 +0200 (MET DST) > Van: Stefan Esser > 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.