From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 10 8: 1:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from news.uni-kl.de (news.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E07537B573 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de) Received: from sushi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de ( root@sushi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de [131.246.89.13] ) by news.uni-kl.de id aa09934 ; 10 May 2000 17:01 MESZ Received: from gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de (gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de [131.246.89.12]) by sushi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA06840; Wed, 10 May 2000 17:01:06 +0200 Received: (from naddy@localhost) by gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01422; Wed, 10 May 2000 17:01:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:01:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Weisgerber Message-Id: <200005101501.RAA01422@gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de> To: K.J.Koster@kpn.com Subject: Re: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd.alpha In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org K.J.Koster: > It seems that the onboard NCR 810 is not recognized by the sym driver. The sym driver used to require features that were only present in the 810A and later chips, but not in the ancient non-'A' 810. The latest versions of the driver in -CURRENT now support all NCR/Symbios/LSI chips. You can also use the very same driver (/sys/dev/sym) in 4.0-STABLE. In fact I do. ;-) The changes are going to be MFCed soon. > I tried building a kernel without any of the sio things, but it failed to > link, saying it was missing "comconsole" and "sionattach" IIRC. The alpha has somewhat different console handling. I guess there's a hidden dependency between the syscons and serial console code and nobody noticed before. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message