From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Oct 30 12:21:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260C31510B for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 12:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA17716; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 13:20:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199910301920.NAA17716@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: initio scsi controller In-Reply-To: <19991031033617P.saeki@ba2.so-net.ne.jp> from Saeki Takashi at "Oct 31, 1999 03:36:17 am" To: saeki@ba2.so-net.ne.jp (Saeki Takashi) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 13:20:53 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Saeki Takashi wrote... > Hi Thomas, Are you writing the driver for the initio SCSI controller? > But Initio already provides FreeBSD CAM SCSI drivers for the controller > on their WebPage. > > see http://www.initio.com/download.htm#misc > > >> BSD Kernel (9XXX/A100 for BSD) > >> 1.9M (8/1/99) > >> v3.0 > > > This drivers seems to be developed for FreeBSD 3.0, but I can compile it > into FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE, without hitch. > Now I am using I/O EXPRESSWAY INI-9200U Dual Channel PCI-Ultra SCSI I/F, > flawlessly. I'm glad to know it works. You're the first person (at least that I can remember) who I've heard from that has one of these cards. > I do not know why the drivers are not commited into FreeBSD. > Commiters, would you please tell me why? > I would like to see the drivers merged into FreeBSD. There are a couple of reasons: - lack of hardware - time - copyright on one of the drivers The driver for their Ultra-Wide SCSI cards consists of three files. One has a standard BSD-style copyright on it. One has a proprietary copyright on it. The last one has no copyright. We cannot integrate that driver into the tree without getting those two files fixed. Their Ultra 2 driver, on the other hand, has a BSD-style copyright on both files. The first two problems will hopefully be solved by Thomas. As for the last one, I think he is going to try to contact Initio about it. > From: Thomas Graichen > Subject: initio scsi controller > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:59:55 +0200 (CEST) > Message-ID: > > > just to let you know (and to avoid any double efforts) - i am currently > > trying to integrate the initio scsi driver from initio into FreeBSD in > > a way that it can be committed - so if anybody else is doing the same > > please contact me - i will post the status here Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message