Subject: Re: ncr53cxxx driver design issues
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/20/2000 07:56:23
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 12:17:03AM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> >For the record, I think this discussion should continue on its own, because
> >it will be a while before this is all fully worked out. Manuel should
> >go ahead and make the new SIOP driver work using hacks that I suggested.
>
> "siop" strikes me as a bad name. It's too generic: lots of other
> vendors could describe their hardware with the same name. Or even
> other NCR chips.
Well, "siop" is in fact the correct name for the particular family of
NCR/Symbios chips we're talking about. I don't know of any other chips
in the NCR/Symbios family that are called "SCSI I/O Processors".
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>