Subject: New scsi driver - testers needed
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 10/29/1995 19:51:29
The new "si" SCSI driver appears to be in pretty good shape now.
On a Sun3/260 it has successfully rebuilt the whole source tree.
On a Sun3/60 it has built several kernels and done a full install
from tape.  (The 3/60 is awful slow for a full source build...)
Both are using DMA and interrupts.  (Much faster than before!)

I'm leaning toward switching to this driver for the 1.1 release,
but I'd be more comfortable with the idea if it had more testing.
So, here is a request:  If anyone has time and resources (spare
disk, etc.) it would be a big help if you could grab the new
driver sources, build the SCSI_TEST kernel, and beat on it.

The latest driver sources are available here:
  ftp ftp.mc.com (anonymous) /pub/gwr/sun3_si.tar.gz

Unpack that in /src/sys/arch/sun3 to create:
	conf/SCSI_TEST
	conf/files.sun3
	dev/am9516.h
	dev/ncr5380.doc
	dev/ncr5380reg.h
	dev/ncr5380sbc.c
	dev/ncr5380var.h
	dev/ncr_si.c
	dev/ncr_sireg.h

Please let me know how it goes...
(as usual, no guarantees 8^)

Thanks,
Gordon Ross