Subject: Re: How to get hardware supported?
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jarom=EDr?= Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: David Burgess <burgess@neonramp.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/23/2001 15:25:17
"Jarom=EDr Dolecek" wrote:
> =

> Bill O'Neill wrote:
> > Would like to know the process of how to get hardware supported
> > in current or future releases? In particular, I have a new Dell
> > 2500SC server and would like to use the following hardware: the
> > embedded Adaptec AIC-7899 SCSI controller, an Intel Pro/1000T Server
> > adapter and the Promise Ultra100/TX2 IDE controller card.
> =

> Don't know about others, but chances are the Promise Ultra100/TX2
> controller would not be too hard to support, since Promise Ultra100
> is already supported. How does NetBSD probe the card, what
> does the kernel write when you boot NetBSD?

I think that's part of the reason Manuel offered if someone sent him =

the card :-)

Dave