On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:11:22PM +1200, Wayne Knowles wrote:

 > I now have DMA support working and it is *rock solid* against my stress
 > testing.  Have not attempted a make build on it yet

Sweet!

 > PS.  The sgimips port is not capable of writing disk labels at present,
 >      and needs an Irix label on the disk.  It is easy to solve, but may
 >      break backward compatability with Irix.   I think the trick may be to
 >      place a NetBSD style disklabel in the 2nd disk sector and maintain an
 >      Irix compatable label on the first sector - this is what is used by
 >      the NetBSD/mipsco port

Yah, probably a good idea.  Some similar trick is used on the Sun ports,
as well.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>