Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:53:52 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Oliver Blasnik <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 for Sparc? Message-ID: <20021122145352.L12431@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from jake@locore.ca on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:44:21PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211650450.7141-100000@pasiphae> <007101c29205$478ab680$2100a8c0@xpath1000> <20021122123311.I12431@locore.ca> <018b01c29251$349e96d0$1d0a310a@de.tiscali.com>
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Urgh, I wasn't finished typing and didn't mean to send this to the list... :-/ Jake Apparently, On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:44:21PM +0000, Jake Burkholder said words to the effect of; > Apparently, On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:01:31PM +0100, > Oliver Blasnik said words to the effect of; > > > Hi Jake, > > > > [Ultra 2 and it's NEC53x94-SCSI] > > > > > > Isn't that chip an ordinary NEC 53c94 at SBus? > > > > > It is. Don't know if anything else uses the same controller. > > > > Some hardware, not sparc-related, does. F.ex. some PPC systems > > have them, don't know whats the status. Some (older) DEC/alpha > > are also using it. So should be of interest to several FreeBSD- > > porting projects. > > > > > Porting the driver to FreeBSD is not as easy as it looks because > > > FreeBSD uses cam; there's no guide that I know of. > > > > There was a non-cam-Version out for FreeBSD, but this isn't a > > solution. But a piece of work which "only" needs to be cam-yfied. > > Hmm, I didn't realize that existed. Scott Long has expressed an > interest in working on a driver, and I've managed to get someone > to loan him an Ultra 2 which he should have after Thanksgiving. > > > > > > Jake > > > > Btw, thanks for your info on wrong IRQ routing (which I assumed > > so far). Just was patching a little bit around as the verbose > > detection log did not look very good to me. But now I'll give > > your suggested patches a try. > > > > Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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