Subject: Re: A few Sun4m changes
To: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/22/1996 07:03:19
On Apr 22, 11:13am, neil@domino.org ("Neil J. McRae") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: A few Sun4m changes

| On Mon, 22 Apr 1996 05:35:31 GMT 
|  christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
| 
| > I just added a patch that will use link0 to select utp and -link0 to select
| > aui. Actually I was committing the patch at the same time Aaron committed
| > his :-)
| 
| This is horrible! This driver should be able to detect what is plugged
| into the card and the user should not have to preselect link0 or
| -link0. 
| 
| Neil
| [who sometimes uses UTP and sometimes uses AUI!] :-)

Read the man page. The driver is supposed to select the right media at
boot time. On the other hand, I don't think that it is right to dynamically
change media just because link was lost in the middle of the day. Even
SunOS and Solaris don't do that.

christos