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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
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Subject: Re: PCMCIA NCR53C500 and Future Domain TMC18C30 drivers.
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> I'm working on the next release of PAO.  It will be released on today
> or tomorrow.  This version have two new drivers.  One is for
> NCR/Symbios 53C800 based SCSI cards (ncv) and the other is Future
> Domain TMC18C30 based cards (stg).
...

> These drivers are ported from NetBSD/pc98 (based on NetBSD 1.2) and is
> very dirty because these drivers depend on implementation policy of
> NetBSD SCSI driver.

Umm, the original NetBSD 53C800 driver was based on the FreeBSD driver.
Did the 'porter' look at the FreeBSD driver before using the NetBSD
driver?


Nate