Subject: Re: Still no u2W on NetBSD ?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2000 13:37:45
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:33:43AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:26:14 -0500
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have an Advansys on an Alpha.
> >
> > A *U2W* Advansys? With the firmware changes that like to, as Dante put
> > it, play three card monte with all those "32-bit" physical and virtual
> > addresses?
>
> Not only do the UW and narrow Advansys cards also do this, but the Adaptec
> 154x and all the BusLogics do it, too. And NetBSD has handled this correctly
> for quite some time, by using a simple hash scheme.
Great! I wasn't aware that Dante had committed his changes to make the U2W
card work, yet, though. Do you actually have one in one of your machines?
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"