Subject: Re: Prestoserve SIMM support?
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/16/2000 17:33:43
>> Is there a
>> technical information (non-)releasability issue, a lack of test hardware, or
>> just a lack of interest?
>
> There's two things -
>
> + No documentation available (for talking to the SIMM itself).
>
> + What would they be used for?  I'd guess that there's no chance
>   that we could get the source for the PrestoServe driver itself,
>   and 1MB may not be big enough for NetApp filer-type caches...

+ SOFTDEP is now standard feature of NetBSD and it largely reduced the
  competitive advantage of PrestoServe hardware although solid state disk
  cache sounds facier.

Tohru Nishimura