I sincerely apologize to all the super patient people who depended on me
for the delivery of an i2o subsystem and a DPT Generation V support with
it.
People, I stood you up and I am sorry for it.
Excuse: I have been rather sick and my hands full with other health
issues in
my family. Since my last progress report I was in the hospital
one
more time for a Thyroid surgery. A tumor the size of my fist
was
removed and a nasty scar left in its place. In addition, two
of my
daughters (Sara and Noelle) had surgery too (we are a knify
type of a
family here :-). In addition, I switched jobs at work and
started a
highly prioritized and complex project. It sucked up any free
cycles
I had. Much of the project will be released under BSD type
license
and many of you will be rather pleased with it.
Future: I would still like, very much, to complete this project. I
actually
got some time from work to spend on finishing the driver. This
is what
I am doing now. IF anyone can and is willing to help me with
coding
and testing, please let me know. Things are a bit early for
just
``PnP'', as the code is not in any shape to actually boot with,
etc.
Status: * I moved the code from RELENG2_2 to RELENG_3; The big
urgency in
2.2 was solved by Mark (from DPT) and I think the 3 branch
is more
viable for most of us. It compiles cleanly.
* I am setting up a test machine (Lost 2 of them when I had to
return
to my previous boss the Alphas I was using). Will be done
in about
two hours.
* Last I visited the code it was doing all the initialization
correctly and also doing READ operations from raw disks
without a
hitch.
* I am still in the dark a bit IRT to disklabel & Co. Mike
Smith
patched some code in for me (thanx again!) but it still
panics the
system. I could use some help again.
* Much of the PCI code has changed from 2.2 (as if you did not
know
that :-) but I will find out today how it does.
* The IOCTL for the dptmgr still has to be worked in. I have
the code
from DPT, so it is just a matter of getting to do it.
Again, sorry for the endless delays and another promise to try and
finish this
project.
--
Sincerely Yours, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
404.644.6401
Simon Shapiro
Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth
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