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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:13:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, (Julian Elischer) <julian@whistle.com>
Subject:   Re: buf struct & scsi disk IO availability.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970930011359.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <199709300703.AAA16827@usr01.primenet.com>

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Hi Terry Lambert;  On 30-Sep-97 you wrote: 
 
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>  SI_SUB_DRIVERS               = 0x23000000,   /* Let Drivers initialize */
>  SI_SUB_CONFIGURE     = 0x24000000,   /* Configure devices */
>  SI_SUB_VM_CONF               = 0x38000000,   /* config VM, set limits*/
>  
>  This should mean "no".
>  
>  Probably the "probe" and the "attach" need to be seperated.  Can you
>  live with attach time instead of probe time?  I think if the answer
>  is "no", an architectural change is required.
>  
>  See /sys/sys/kernel.h and search for "SI_".
>  
>  If this is for a "registry" type mechanism, a BIOS-based I/O is not
>  out of the question, I think.

There is always the posibility of issuing SCSI commands directly into
static buffers, or even malloced one.  I issue a number of SCSI command at
init time from the DPT driver.  Not disk i/o but scsi commands all the same.


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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro                                                 Atlas Telecom
Senior Architect         14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005
Shimon@i-Connect.Net                                  Voice:   503.799.2313



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