Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

[Wilko Bulte]

As Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote ...
> -On [19991209 12:00], Wilko Bulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >As Mike Smith wrote ...
> >> > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> >> > [there] were the SCSI drivers lost to CAM
> >> 
> >> Actually, most of this is histrionics.  CAM didn't lose us SCSI drivers; 
> >
> >Not quite true: the esp driver for the alphas got lost. No attack on anyone,
> >just stating a fact.
> 
> Another state of fact, until no-one finds it annoying enough to fix it
> it will be Atticised for quite some time longer.

True. No doubt.

> Apparantly the people whom caused a ruckus about losing some
> functionality when moving to better designed new driver framework
> weren't quite that bothered at all.  Else we would've seen submissions
> for those drivers to be upgraded to the new framework.  Luoqi is a prime
> example for aic.  (If my memory serves me right.)

FWIW: I only discovered the esp thingy when I found myself with a 
Turbochannel Alpha box. Not earlier.  ;)

-- 
Wilko Bulte             Arnhem, The Netherlands   - The FreeBSD Project 
                        WWW : http://www.tcja.nl  http://www.freebsd.org


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