From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 8 08:04:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA28035 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA28026 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id JAA17196; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:02:19 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:02:19 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199801081602.JAA17196@narnia.plutotech.com> To: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AIC7880P In-Reply-To: <199801080654.AAA13982@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199801080654.AAA13982@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> you wrote: > I have heard that the new chips broke the driver > in Linux because they (chips) are not fully backwards compatible (?). i > So, I just wonder whether that might be a problem for FreeBSD ? You're thinking about the aic7895 (which there is support for in FreeBSD already). The 7880(P) has been supported for a long time. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================