Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:01:26 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Jacob Frelinger <jolly@thecoffinclub.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64, adaptec smart raid cards, and the asr driver Message-ID: <427A5F76.90708@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050505162717.GB13777@thecoffinclub.com> References: <20050505162717.GB13777@thecoffinclub.com>
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Jacob Frelinger wrote: > Is any one working on getting these cards/drivers working under > sparc64? looking at the asr driver code it looks like it might > (has plenty of #defines referencing big-endian and sparc) but i'm > not sure how to add it to the sparc build process to test. > > any ideas/clues? > This is an FAQ, unfortunately. The driver is a long was from being conformant to the FreeBSD BUSDMA api. Until that is fixed, it has absolutely no chance of working on sparc64 in particular, nor on an i386 or amd64 machine with more than 4GB of RAM (doesn't matter how much RAM with sparc64, it simply won't work at all). SCott
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