Subject: Re: NetBSD v/s aic7890
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: John D. DeHart <jdd@arl.wustl.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/1999 16:50:28
Matthew,

Thanks for the info. I had been searching the archives and only
found questions but I must have missed the rest.

John


Matthew Jacob wrote:

> There has been large amounts of response on this topic for the last year.
> There probably wasn't any response to the last email.
>
> Of my own knowledge I know:
>
> 1) The FreeBSD aic7xxx driver supports this chipset. It works in a CAM
> framework. The author (Justin Gibbs) isn't interested in backporting the
> aic7890 support into the NetBSD/OpenBSD aic7xxx driver- but isn't opposed
> to somebody else doing so. There are no currently active plans for CAM
> support in NetBSD.
>
> 2) I had heard rumors of somebody else working on AIC7890 support in the
> current NetBSD aic7xx, but have heard nothing of progress or lack thereof.
>
> >
> > This question about support for the aic7890 has come up a couple of
> > times without
> > any response. I assume that means there is no support and there is no
> > plan to support it.
> > Is that correct?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > kwame yamgnane wrote:
> >
> > > there is some news about NetBSD and the aic7890 ?
> >