Subject: Re: Advansys U2W on NetBSD
To: samuel Lellouche <Samuel.Lellouche@epita.fr>
From: Dante Profetaunt.width <dante@mclink.it>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/06/2000 15:36:39
samuel Lellouche wrote:
>
> Hi..
>
> I've been told by someone here that advansys U2W (U2W 3940) worked on
> Netbsd.
>
> I bought one and on my NetBsd 1.4.1 it says:
>
> Advanced System Products product 0x2500 (SCSI mass storage) at pci1 dev 11
> function 0 not configured
>
> Do i need to build a current kernel?
> Or is that that my card is not the right card to be supported by Netbsd?
>
> In that case Which cards are?? (U2W).
>
> Thanx alot..
I'm at the final stage of making the L2V cards working properly on
NetBSD.
I'm in contact with AdwanSys guys who developed the ,uCode and the Linux
driver.
The major problem I have is that the microcode of the card plays the
game of "the three cards" between phisical and virtual addresses, with
the assumption they are all 32 bits wide; moreover the 4 least
significative bits of the physical address are used by the ,uCode to
store some flags... you can imagine the mess...
At this time I've got a working driver but it is not very stable and
full of junk code.
I'm working on a clean way to dial with the ,uCode ... although it's not
so easy.
--
Dante_