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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:58:07 -0700 
From:      "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        "'Larry Vaden'" <vaden@texoma.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: clues regarding running on Dell 1650 with Adaptec AACRAID (RO MB128)
Message-ID:  <CEDF5AA24668244F8D529010E2955A940A7621@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Vaden [mailto:vaden@texoma.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:06 AM
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: clues regarding running on Dell 1650 with Adaptec AACRAID
> (ROMB128)
> 
> 
> What is necessary to support the Dell 1650 with Adaptec 
> AACRAID ROMB128 
> under 4.5-RELEASE-P2?
> 

I just added support for this configuration to both 4-STABLE and
5-CURRENT.  You can either grab a -stable snapshot and install off
of that, or install 4.5-RELEASE and update using cvsup.

> In other words, where's the hook in FreeBSD to do the same 
> thing mentioned 
> below for Linux?
> 

There is no such hook in FreeBSD (we frown on doing string parsing
in the kernel =-).

Scott

> rgds/ldv
> 
> =====
> 
> RFC][PATCH] passing PCI IDs in at module load
> Matt_Domsch@Dell.com Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
> Wed Aug 8 13:51:00 2001
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> 
> So we don't get bitten ever again by the problem of not 
> having the PCI IDs
> in the driver for a brand new controller, I've made a patch 
> which should
> solve this. Basically, you pass as a module option the PCI
> vendor/device/subsys vendor/device, like so:
> 
> insmod aacraid aacraid_pciid=0x1028,0x0001,0x1028,0x0001
> 
> This gets found first, then all other devices get probed as normal.
> 
> While I was at it, I removed some of the #ifdef MODULE stuff 
> that's not
> necessary with 2.4.x.
> 
> Thoughts?
> -Matt
> 
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Dell Linux Solutions
> www.dell.com/linux
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> 
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