Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:05:53 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) Message-ID: <19970822220553.UQ39882@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970822085718.11588C-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Aug 22, 1997 09:15:50 -0700 References: <19970822093613.ES33724@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970822085718.11588C-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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As Tom Samplonius wrote: > I'm basically repeating what was said in freebsd-scsi. Which was that > the dpt driver would not be integrated as-is. This is NOT misinformation. That's right. But your messages sounded as if the driver would have been rejected wholesale, without any chance of being integrated. And that's not the case. > I've never heard Justin say yes or no on this matter. I've exchanged > private e-mail with him some time ago, at which point he was going to be > integrating the driver. However, since the dpt requires modification in > other parts of the system beyond the SCSI subsystem, I doubt that Justin > in the only one involved. A key issue seems to be software interupts. Justin is also supposed to handle this. I think he needed these software interrupts for his ongoing CAM work anyway, and wants the DPT driver make them use as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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