[ On Friday, May 17, 2002 at 08:20:26 (-0700), Matthew Jacob wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: 160MB/s (was Re: scsibus capabilities.)
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:14:08PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:01:10PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > 
> > >  > re-porting the FreeBSD AHC driver should not require chip docs.....  :-)
> > > 
> > > The current FreeBSD ahc driver is currently somewhat split up for
> > > OS-independent and OS-dependent bits, too.
> > 
> > Yes, but it's really tied to CAM and doesn't fit too well with our scsi layer.
> > Doing a proper port would require a few changes to the OS-independant
> > driver part, and for this I needs adaptec docs (from what I remember when
> > I looked at this stuff some months ago).
> 
> 
> No- it's not tied to CAM anymore since Justin did a fair job of
> reaarchitecting it into OS and core portions so it'd run on Linux && FreeBSD.

and of course there's already an example port of an earlier version to
NetBSD too.....  :-)

You can do it!  I know you can!  :-)

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