Re: Use Advansys instead of Adaptec

[Toby Weingartner <weingart@wolfram.com>]

On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> Even if the documentation effort fails, documentation exists in the
> form of existing BSD drivers.  In fact, unless the SCSI subsystem is
> radically different in OpenBSD than FreeBSD (which from looking at
> Matt Jacob's Qlogic,ISP drivers, I think it is not) you can just merge
> it into the OpenBSD tree, perform the minor tinkering, and it will
> most likely just work.  Isn't it worth a try for those developers who
> happen to have cards to test this on?

Sure.  I've tried to do that.  Now maybe I'm not qualified, and am not a
good enough coder to actually get something working.  I had my changes
hanging the kernel.  Talking to justin gibbs (of the freebsd driver), he
basically said "Yup, I know that problem.  What you really need, is the docs
to show you how the register bits have changed."  I've even looked at
"porting" the freebsd stuff, but that ain't easy.  At least for me...

--Toby.