Subject: Re: eisa bindings for the cac driver?
To: Yubyub bird <jonl@yubyub.net>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/21/2000 02:48:45
Yubyub bird <jonl@yubyub.net> wrote:

> I've got an older proliant 2000 with an EISA Compaq Smart Array
> controller.  AFAIK NetBSD doesn't support it yet.  FreeBSD seems to,
> however.  Was the cac driver pulled from the FreeBSD sources, or was it a
> from scratch driver?

It was written from scratch, although cacreg.h was taken from FreeBSD.

> Is it easy enough to add EISA bindings to the cac driver?  Does the cac
> driver support the older Smart Array controllers?

I don't remember the Compaq firmware specification mentioning EISA.

> I'd be happy to hack/test if someone can point me in the right direction.

I will write an EISA front-end and send it to you for testing.