Subject: Re: 160MB/s (was Re: scsibus capabilities.)
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/20/2002 19:17:56
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:20:26AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

There are CAM bits in the core portion. It's possible that the linux
version includes a CAM emulation, but as the linux version is GPL'd we
can't use it.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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