From owner-freebsd-commit Thu Mar 30 11:20:49 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06224 for commit-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:20:49 -0800 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06210 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:20:47 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA06202; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:20:45 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA10982; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:20:30 -0800 Message-Id: <199503301920.LAA10982@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: se@freefall.cdrom.com (Stefan Esser), CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf BOOTFLP In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:12:05 PST." <199503301912.LAA13910@ref.tfs.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:20:29 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Modified: sys/i386/conf BOOTFLP >> Log: >> Do not try to negotiate synchronous SCSI transfers in the Boot Kernel. > >How about controling this with the flags argument, and default it to off ? > >This way people can boot the boot.flp, but not from their harddisk... > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. >'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' >=> 'no rude people are relevant' The aic7xxx based controllers allow you to controll this through the BIOS on a per target basis. I'd like the new scsi config code to allow this level of control for all devices on any type of controller. I have the beginnings of this (the scsi code tells the controller when it should be doing sync/wide negotiation and tagged queuing), but it won't be ready until after 2.1. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================