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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:47:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, obrien@NUXI.com, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000112232143.335B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200001120210.SAA26406@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

[ ... ]

> > Changing the default 53C8XXX driver for 3.X in GENERIC may make
> > unacceptable differences on some systems due to the `sym' applying the
> > user settings from NVRAM. The below untested patch (I will test it if i=
t
> > is accepted and add additionnal comments to involved files) adds the
> > 53C895A and 53C1510D Ultra-2 chips to the ncr device table and let the =
sym
> > only attach chips the ncr is unable to handle (C1010 Ultra-3 chip only =
for
> > now).=20
>=20
> Has the support for 895A/1510D been added to ncr in -current and been
> given some time to be tested?  If so then it's just a MFC to add that
> to the ncr table.  If not, well, it needs to be done in -current first.

For now, the ncr does not know about these chips and will have to handle
them like a 896.

> Other than that issue this looks good...

I don't see the issue given that the ncr never had seen any of these chips
for the moment, but I will make changes in -current first. Btw, I haven't
any of these chips, but both have been reported to work using the linux
driver. By the way, I will also add the chip balancing between ncr and
sym in PCI-COMPAT mode under -current and test it prior to moving the
changes to releng_3 (the sym has a compilation option to use PCI-COMPAT
under 4.0).=20

> > Index: ncr.c
> This can't go in to -stable until it goes into -current:

Hmmm... depends on the feature being still available in compatible form=20
in -current or not, and probably on size and triviality/dangerousity of
changes.

By the way, releng_3 (from last week-end) did crash when I attempted to
write to a write-protected diskette:

   panic: vinvalbuf: dirty buffer

Has this one been caught?

Regards,
  G=E9rard.



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