Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:17:44 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr> Cc: Gerard Roudier <groudier@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf NOTES Message-ID: <20000903221744.A909@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009031909220.554-100000@linux.local>; from groudier@club-internet.fr on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:56:43PM %2B0200 References: <20000903154623.A715@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009031909220.554-100000@linux.local>
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Gérard Roudier wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:29:52AM -0700, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > > groudier 2000/09/03 05:29:52 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/i386/conf NOTES > > > Log: > > > Add device list supported by `sym' > > > > Hello Gerard, > > > > Is there any need to document / test this in the Alpha world as well? > > Indeed, the diffs can be merged with the NOTE file that addresses Alpha. Well, we don't have an alpha NOTES file yet ;-) > Do you really want to test all the chips of the list under all existing > Alpha variants ? :) No, but I just want to make sure I don't miss anything while documenting the alpha stuff. > They should work, given proper PCI BUS interfaces (bridge + kernel > interfaces), in my opinion. Pamela Delaney tested at LSI the 53C896 and > 53C1010 under Linux/Alpha on some Alpha machine and they worked well. I > donnot see why they shouldn't work as well with `sym' under FreeBSD/Alpha > (The recent SYM53C895A problem was a consequence of a kernel BUS interface > difference regarding BAR resources identification). > > Why duplicating such information in a per platform basis ? (the driver is > documented in sym(4)) Please don't take it as an attack :-) The only thing is that the SRM console code on Alphas tends to support (for booting) different Symbios based adapters depending on which alpha machine model you have. Annoying, but true. Wilko -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the messagehelp
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