Hi, > Yes, it can and does vary by platform, and by age as well. EV6 > platforms don't have code to support the original TGA or the old MYLEX > RAID controllers, for example. Certain options are "retired" from the > actively developed platforms due to age, and new ones added there and > rarely backported. For example, SRM v5.7 for the EV6s added support > for some Adaptec SCSI controllers. Fortunately, that code was > backported into the LX and SX SRM consoles, but I don't know of any > other pre-EV6 platforms in which this happened, or is likely to > happen.
I wonder, if there is any information about *how* SRM determines, if a card is supported or not. Does SRM just read the PCI config space and identify a card by it's vendor_id/device_id byte pairs, or is there more magic involved. I have observed, that some cheap symbios-based SCSI cards, which simply *clone* the config-space from symbios are supported by SRM, without obviously being an orginial DEC/Compaq part. Others, with customized PROM's are not, using the same chip. That leads me to the conclusion, that there is ( to some degree ) some involvement of the PCI config space. Is there some sort of "SRM internals guide" available ( still looking for some doc of the SRM ccb's though... ) ? Regards, Thomas Weyergraf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
