Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 01:37:38 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do you support Message-ID: <199802270937.BAA12323@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:04:39 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980226230152.19894F-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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>> I am surprised. 8) I wonder if the demon that did the backport would >> consider bundling it such that we could ship it as an optional extra? > > Well, this was discussed on freebsd-scsi I believe... > > Justin and/or Dave G are working on making a patchkit for 2.2-stable I >believe. There is is even talking including CAM in the 2.2 branch after >2.2.6. I suspect that would be done as a kernel option, because some >drivers are not CAMified yet. ...nasty rumors. :-) The port of CAM to 2.2.x that Justin did was sort of a favor to me; I was having an intermittant problem with 'buffer already done' panics that appeared to be a buffer mismanagement in the (MI/MD) SCSI layer, and we thought it would be interesting if the problem went away by using CAM (it did!). I did ask Justin at the time if it would be possible to make both the old and new SCSI system available as compile-time options, but this is difficult due to serious namespace conflicts and incompatible software interfaces. I don't think a patchkit of somesort is out of the question, however...but you'll have to do some arm twisting (Justin's arm, not mine! :-)). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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