From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Nov 1 10:39:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from front5m.grolier.fr (front5m.grolier.fr [195.36.216.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C48014D60 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from groudier@club-internet.fr) Received: from localhost (ppp-224-49.villette.club-internet.fr [195.36.224.49]) by front5m.grolier.fr (8.9.3/No_Relay+No_Spam_MGC990224) with SMTP id TAA23946 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 19:39:02 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 21:02:10 +0100 (MET) From: Gerard Roudier X-Sender: groudier@localhost To: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: SYM-0.9.0 ok for 3.3 and -current (was SYM driver available for -stable) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had updated my local repository last week-end and have had time this=20 week-end for checking that SYM-0.9.0 compiles ok for 3.3 and -current as=20 expected, and btw works fine for me under these O/S versions. G=E9rard. PS: If I am the only user of this driver, may-be I should switch its status to production quality immediately. ;-) On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote: > I just made available SYM driver 0.9.0 as a tar file that contains full= =20 > driver files. This avoids applying 8 nasty patches successively. >=20 > ftp://ftp.tux.org/roudier/drivers/freebsd/experimental/SYM-0.9.0-19991024= =2Etar.gz > ftp://ftp.tux.org/roudier/drivers/freebsd/experimental/README.sym > (modulo spelling errors :-) ) >=20 > Status: (switched back to EXPERIMENTAL due to some heavy changes) > EXPERIMENTAL > This driver is currently developped under the following O/S: > FreeBSD 4.0 SNAPSHOT July 5th 1999 > Starting with version 0.9.0, the driver contains conditionnal code=20 > for using pre-4.0 BUS stuff for PCI. I have successfully tested driver= =20 > version 0.9.0 under: > FreeBSD 3.2 RELEASE > Given that the old bus stuff is still supported under FreeBSD, the dri= ver=20 > should also compile and work just fine under FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE. >=20 > Latest revision: > sym-0.9.0-19991024 >=20 > * SYM-0.8.0-19991016 (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.8.0-19991016) > Heavy rewrite/rewamping of the error handling code in order to conform= =20 > to FreeBSD-CAM expectation of commands having to be requeued and device= =20 > queue to be frozen on any kind of error. Driver status switched back=20 > to EXPERIMENTAL due to these changes. > Warn user about targets that are not flagged for SCAN AT BOOT in the=20 > NVRAM, since the driver will not allow the corresponding devices to be= =20 > discovered by XPT. > And numerous minor changes. >=20 > * SYM-0.9.0-19991024 (Tar file SYM-0.9.0-19991024.tar.gz) > Add support for previous PCI BUS stuff, for the driver to be useable=20 > under FreeBSD 3.X RELEASES. The source is #ifdefed for using the old=20 > PCI BUS code under __FreeBSD_version < 400000 and the new one otherwise= =2E > Tested under RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE, but should also be just fine for 3.3= =2E > Other changes against version 0.8.0 are only minor buglet fixes. >=20 > October 24 1999. "Gerard Roudier" =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message