From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 10 17:22:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03876 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03719 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA14806; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:20:18 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199805110020.SAA14806@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: serial console w/ SCSI hangs... In-Reply-To: from The Hermit Hacker at "May 10, 98 08:43:06 pm" To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:20:18 -0600 (MDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Hermit Hacker wrote... > > Is there any way of rebooting using the serial console when a SCSI bus > hang happens? On a Sparc system, the serial console is hardware driven, > not software, so you can break down to the prom and reboot that way... > > With the SCSI bus hang in mind...what is the ETA on getting the CAM > drivers finally integrated? :) Well, our goal is to get hardware support all the way done, or almost all the way done before CAM goes into -current. If we do that, we'll avoid un-supporting people that were able to use FreeBSD before. There may be a couple of crufty old cards (Seagate ST01?) whose drivers won't get ported to CAM, but most everything else should. As for a real ETA, that's difficult to say. The good news is that Justin's documentation is coming along nicely, so the folks that have been waiting on documentation to continue with writing hardware drivers won't have to wait much longer. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message