Subject: Re: Any news about old problems?
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/07/2002 01:51:48
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Rick Kelly wrote:

> Matthew Jacob said:
> 
> >Hunt a little or ask the original author... from espvar.h:
> 
> Yes, I saw that. I wasn't sure if I should AND those values...
> 
> >The issue as to whether or not tagged qing is enabled in solaris depends
> >on the target driver (sd, in this case) deciding, based on INQUIRY data
> >whether to try or not.
> 
> However, it doesn't seem to return a tagged message for IBM Ultra SCSI
> drives that support tagged qing. It sort of implies that the boot drive
> sets the rules or they are not enabled in the drive modeselect pages.
> 
> >In any case, tags in aren't supported in esp on solaris except when the
> >chip is a FAS variant.
> 
> And it all comes around to why do we try to support it in NetBSD on the
> Sun4c? The problem was known long before 1.6 got released. NetBSD 1.5.3
> works really well on sun4c.
> 

My opinion, which has made the rounds before, is "no, not as a
default".