Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:10:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: groudier@club-internet.fr (Gerard Roudier) Cc: mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), obrien@NUXI.com, jedgar@fxp.org (Chris D. Faulhaber), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT Message-ID: <200001120210.SAA26406@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000112010102.348A-100000@localhost> from Gerard Roudier at "Jan 12, 2000 01:32:13 am"
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> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> > FWIW, I totally agree with you about the two drivers and the reasons for
> > it.
> >
> >
> > My only concern originally had been dropping support for folks with the
> > older h/w. We've addressed that by retaining support for the NCR driver.
> > That older h/w will flush out over time, but it's like the Adaptec 154X
> > now- EOL'd.
> >
> > Everyone- can we move on now?
>
> Yes. But I need approval for the changes to apply to RELENG_3.
>
> 4.0 can go with `sym' taking precedence in GENERIC, in my opinion, but I
> will accept any different decision, obviously.
4.0 sym should take precendence, we need it to be beat to death over there
and this is about the only way to get that done.
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> 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 it
> 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).
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.
Other than that issue this looks good...
>
> Index: ncr.c
This can't go in to -stable until it goes into -current:
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{188}# grep NCR_895A_ID *
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{189}# pwd
/usr/src/sys/pci
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{190}# uname -a
FreeBSD Orbit.hpc1.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Jan 10 17:39:10 PST 2000 root@Orbit.hpc1.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
Orbit.hpc1.com:root{191}#
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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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