Subject: Re: toe in the water
To: David Griffiths <dgriff@hursley.ibm.com>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-next68k
Date: 08/16/1999 09:50:29
>>> - What is the state of SCSI support?  [...]
>> SCSI is not working.  [...DMA-chip grief...]
> As mentioned in a previous message, I'm soon going to be working on
> the port of Linux to black hardware.  [...]  [T]here is strange stuff
> going on in the Plan 9 SCSI driver, with comments such as "NeXT Brain
> Damage"!  I know porting to black hardware was a "painful" operation
> for them so studying their source could probably save you a lot of
> grief.

Personally, I'd love to get my paws on any of that source code -
meaning both the proto-Linux code and the Plan 9 code - that you're
allowed to share.  (Is Plan 9 open-source?  I forget.)

					der Mouse

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