From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 27 19:38: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949BA14CD0 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:38:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA13069; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:37:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199910280237.UAA13069@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: Porting a SCSI driver from 2.2.x to 3.x In-Reply-To: <000901bf204e$9d9bbaf0$0200a8c0@nts-ts1.aims.private> from Chris Knight at "Oct 27, 1999 06:41:00 pm" To: Chris@aims.com.au Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:37:59 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Knight wrote... > I've contacted Simon several times over the last year. No driver has been > forthcoming, even for testing purposes. Mark Salyzyn's driver has been > working flawlessly for me on several 2.2.8 boxes, but I need them working on > 3.x soonish. If that requires me porting the 2.2.8 driver, then I'll do so. > I don't necessarily see anything wrong with duplicate efforts, but I can > see problems in deciding which driver should be merged into the repository. Well, feel free to work on it. If it works okay, it may well go in the tree. FreeBSD could certainly use support for those boards, since people query the lists about them frequently. Keep in mind that once Simon's I2O code shows up, we may drop your driver in favor of a native I2O driver for those boards. I'm sure Justin will be glad to answer questions about the CAM SIM layer if you need help porting the driver. It might be helpful for you to just post questions to the -scsi list when you have them, that way a number of people will get a shot at answering. (and you won't be waiting on one person to answer) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message