Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:06:55 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating Message-ID: <200710201607.11221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com> References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <47192969.20809@samsco.org> <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Great perspective here, thanks for taking the time to respond. I > agree with you and believe that some attention should be put on the > hardware vendor driver side of things. It was *such* a pain to get > to the point where I could even install Freebsd on these machines. > And 3Ware RAID controllers are pretty standard IMHO. > > I've upgraded to RELENG_6 from RELENG_6_2 but I'm not at the data > center and I cannot chance a reboot with the twa driver not working > for me and the machine not coming back up. It is quite trivial to modify the install disk if you have another FreeBSD machine handy to build the kernel. You can just drop in the module you want to /boot/kernel on the CD. Although I agree, it would be nice if you could more easily load vendor drivers.. (ie if the module overrode the kernel code) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHGaIX5ZPcIHs/zowRAqrVAKCZZ00oxmJR9coAFO886uZxjjAKMACfYw/m uU+WhD9ccLd/bkA9Lw2I1wc= =4JxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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