Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100/TX2
To: Jeff Flowers <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/25/2002 19:46:55
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:20:39PM -0500, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> I know that 1.5.2 doesn't but does NetBSD current support the Promise
> controller listed in the subject line, also known as the PDC20268? FreeBSD
> 4.5 and OpenBSD current supports this card but I would prefer to get NetBSD
> up and running.

There seems to be problems with master+slave on the primary channel, but as
long  as you only have one master on primary channel it should be OK.
Support is in -current and has been pulled up to 1.5 branch (so will be in
1.5.3)

> 
> Also, a side question not specific to X86: I noticed through trying to
> compile Lame that NetBSD currently has a somewhat older version of GCC. Will
> this be upgraded in 1.5.3 or will that happen later on?

It won't change in the 1.5 branch; current has gcc 2.95.3 now.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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