Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:56:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Lowkrantz, Goran" <Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se> Cc: "'Bill Fumerola'" <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem adding aic driver to kernel Message-ID: <37F1B810.3C2C3978@newsguy.com> References: <B500F74C6527D311B61F0000C0DF5ADC0D471A@valhall.ign.se>
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"Lowkrantz, Goran" wrote: > > Just as a note, there is not a word in the release notes that the old SCSI > and the CAM SCSI can't exist at the same time on the same machine. If CAM is > the only SCSI subsystem that can live on a 3.x system, I would say that all > the cards that use a driver not available in CAM is not supported on a > FreeBSD 3.x. Then they should not be in the list of supported cards. The way > I interpret the word supported, if something is supported in an operating > system, it works. Feel free to have any other interpretation but then it's > marketing. This information is there so that people who have one of these cards can find that it is no longer supported. If we kept silent, people would try to upgrade systems that rely on non-supported hardware just because it was previously supported. It was wishful reading on your part. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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