On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
> 
> What's the problem with the Symbios stuff - is it "the chips are crap"
> (why?) or "the NetBSD driver isn't prefected yet"?

Neither.  It's "all of the free source drivers are descended from the
same common ancestor, which was crap, and now it's been independently
hacked on by about 5000 different people but the basic problems have
never been fixed."

This is true for all the *BSD drivers and the various Linux drivers
including some which are distributed by card vendors as "their"
"improved" drivers.

Different people lose different ways with different flavors of the
driver, but it still just plain sucks and everyone eventually loses
somehow.

If someone would just sit down and write a reasonable 53c8xx (with
some work, a clean 7xx/8xx driver might even be possible) driver,
with careful attention to Symbios' application note (which explicitly
discourages several things the current code does) we could all stop
losing.

Thor