Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:31:00 -0600
From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc: re@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Tidying src/release/*/{dokern.sh,drivers.conf}
Message-ID: <3EC825C4.6040203@btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030518224101.8E9262A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
References: <20030518224101.8E9262A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:30:52PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >> >>>On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:31:30AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >>> >>>>Index: sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC >>>>=================================================================== >>>>RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC,v >>>>retrieving revision 1.159 >>>>diff -u -r1.159 GENERIC >>>>--- sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC 21 Apr 2003 16:44:04 -0000 1.159 >>>>+++ sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC 18 May 2003 08:26:10 -0000 >>>>@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ >>>> # SCSI Controllers >>>> device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices >>>> device isp # Qlogic family >>>>+device ispfw # Firmware module for Qlogic host adapt > > ers > >>>Why? The isp(4) and ispfw(4) maintainer has purposely not done this. >> >>Matt (mjacob) has learned me that having the right firmware >>loaded via ispfw.ko can be quite crucial to have isp operate correctly. >>ispfw.ko is rather big, due to the various different isp f/w >>revs/cards it supports. > > > Yes, but he had intended that it be used as a module so that it could be > unloaded when finished. It is only used once, to bootstrap the cards. > Putting it in GENERIC prevents the unload. > Is the isp(4) driver smart enough to load the ispfw module in a default install with no user intervention? I'm having trouble locating any code in the isp driver that would do this. Scott
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