From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 08:32:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA24692 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 08:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA24663 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 08:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA18211 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:27:41 +0100 Message-Id: <199601221627.AA18211@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:27:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Dufault "Re: Whew!!!!!!! (MAJOR sigh of relief!)" (Jan 21, 9:29) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Peter Dufault Subject: Re: Whew!!!!!!! (MAJOR sigh of relief!) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 21, 9:29, Peter Dufault wrote: } Subject: Re: Whew!!!!!!! (MAJOR sigh of relief!) } I plan on plugging into the SCSI code with Justin shortly. I am } finishing up a new rev of the GPIB driver that supports different } boards and modes, and check in and write man pages for three new } Data Acq drivers. } } After that I plan on moving policy up out of the SCSI board drivers } and into the common code, hopefully reduce some of the common code } in the drivers, and adding common SCSI resource scheduling. Yes, I'd love to see this done! } I have the 1542 and now the NCR covered (though I'm sure Stefan } will help with that) and Justin has the AHC. It will be nice if } some others can step forward to pick up the other boards. And I'd be glad to help. There are parts of the NCR driver, that could be greatly simplified, if the GENERIC driver offered suitable support. I intend (and have prepared) significant changes to the NCR driver code (loading of the NCR SCRIPT, error handling and multi byte messages). Additional functionality in the generic code could simplify some parts of the NCR driver. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se