From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 15 0:32: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993DA14F48 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:32:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864271C03; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:32:00 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers' In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Jacob of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:31:35 PST." Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:32:00 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000115083200.864271C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: Umm, would you mind explaining this in english instead of acronyms? :-) Otherwise it means abosolutely nothing to the average bystander... > I've just committed into -current a bare-bones SES/SAF-TE driver that will > be fleshed out somewhat over the next couple of days, but will remain a > bare bones driver. It's a stub right now (just matches && attaches), but > the rest of it will show up tomorrow. > > There will be a simple ioctl API to get to it, but I won't be putting > any management daemons into the source tree- there has been no clear > consensus on how to manage a lot of this, so any tools to extract info at > best will be in /usr/contrib or /usr/ports. > > That said... if anyone out there has (they believe) any SES or SAF-TE (or > even Sun RSM trays that have the Unisys SEN card in them) and wants > perhaps act as a guinea pig, I'd appreciate hearing about it. The tools > and usage is pretty lightweight and I just pretty much need to > crosscheck/port some tools I did on Solaris for FreeBSD. > > Basically, I have SES units in a Sun A5000 disk box, SAF-TE in a Sun > D1000, SEN in an RSM tray, and a couple random other bits and pieces that > show up. If anyone has other devices than these, particularly SAF-TE ones > (which the driver emulates as SES), please consider trying the driver > and letting me know what transpires. > > TIA and all that... > > -matt Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message