From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 22 13:22:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA29826 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA29818 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA06397 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:22:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA06768; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:05:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970822220553.UQ39882@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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) References: <19970822093613.ES33724@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Aug 22, 1997 09:15:50 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)