Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:36:43 -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: <200001102336.PAA23001@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000111001821.759A-100000@localhost> from Gerard Roudier at "Jan 11, 2000 00:48:16 am"
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... > > I care after such a zombie (linux ncr53c8xx) since 1 year now:). It is > only maintained against bugs and O/S changes. Seems the ncr also lives > this way since a couple a year. > > The sym driver supports from 810A to 1010 and does actually use as best It does not support the 825 so the above is not quite true. > as I was able to do all features of these chips. Also supporting the old > chips would have add to much complexity, or victimize new chips, actual > reliability, etc... > > FYI, SYMBIOS has 1 driver for 810 up to 895 and another one for 896 to > 1010 (may-be the 1010 will get a new driver, I donnot know). > The sym only drops support for 6 years old chips. > > By the way, possible it is to write a single SIM that supports all the > Adaptec collection of SCSI boards. Any volonteer? ;-) The adaptec collection are far more different from each other than the 2 most different sym chips. The ahc driver supports the family of chips that is compariable to the sym driver, yes it is a complex beast, but so is maintaining 2 sets of code that are 80% similiar in functionality. What is so different about the 810, 815 and 825 chip that they need thier own driver that will need maintained for at least 5 more years? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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