Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:18:08 +0300 From: "Yuri Krichevsky" <yury@nest.bistbn.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Why not ? Message-ID: <007801bd7fea$c1ec0ff0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com> In-Reply-To: <19980515093912.L320@freebie.lemis.com>
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Hi. Maybe it will be useful to put somewhere in one place all patches, drivers that for some reasons can't be included in FreeBSD distribution, but is the only solution for some kind of problems ? Maybe it will be good place for alpha and beta versions of drivers too. Or even add to distribution 'last resort' installation floppy with all this drivers and workarounds included in kernel. For example, I spend a lot of time (two days) to install 2.2.6-RELEASE on my COMPAQ Proliant 850R server with COMPAQ SMART SCSI Array Controller and COMPAQ Netelligent NIC. It was not difficult to find IDA driver in freebsd-* mailing archive, but building custom installation floppy is not very easy and it takes a lot of disk space (day after I saw message in -hackers that points to floppy image ;-) In case of IDA driver - it is one year old and it works fine. Yes, it 'eats' wdc0's IRQ, and it is impossible to use SMART SCSI Array Controller and IDE devices at the same time, but if you have 2 choices - 1) use IDE devices (like CD-ROM that ships with Proliant) 2) throw away IDE drives, but be able to use SCSI Array with RAID5 the second one is preferable (at least for me ;-) I think that collection of such drivers will make life just a little bit easy ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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