From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 9 9:48: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C8914E0B for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA59176; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:47:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199909091647.KAA59176@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: DEC3000/x00 SCSI controller In-Reply-To: <14295.45030.963851.830444@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Sep 9, 1999 09:14:43 am" To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:47:03 -0600 (MDT) Cc: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin wrote... > > Martin Cracauer writes: > > The installation doc says that the DEC3000/x00 machines support > > netboot only. > > > > Does this mean the onboard SCSI controller and/or turbochannel SCSI > > controllers aren't supported at all? > > > > Yes. I did the original port of the NetBSD support for these machines. > The SCSI controller was supported before CAM, but I lost access to > DEC3000/x boxes shortly before CAM-day & nobody ever picked it up. > > The esp.c files are still languishing in our source tree > (sys/alpha/tc/esp*) if you care port them to CAM. It might be > preferable to integrate TC support into the existing PCI amd.c driver, I'm not sure I follow that... Do you mean that the NCR 53c94 chips supported by the esp driver and the AMD 53c974 chips supported by the AMD driver have the same interface? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message