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?"