Re: Building DragonFly (was: Initial messaging ...)

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:47:55PM -0500, David Leimbach wrote:
> I am interested in getting the SATA driver I helped sponsor
> Soeren to write for SiI3112's :).
> 
> I don't know what kind of time I will have to do this....  I am
> currently doing work-work as we speak... :(

	I have researched into updating the ATA driver in DragonFly
	(i.e. 4.x effectively).  There are too many updates that have
	gone in the FreeBSD-5.x driver, such as:

		- PC-98 support
		- BusDMA'ing, for making it work on SPARC
		- Chipset code improvements. (ata-chipset.c was added)
	
	I would rather wait until the Dev Messaging stuff is completely
	done before bringing in any Hardware updates, apart from Chipset
	ID additions :-)

	Cheers.

		-- Hiten
> 
> The flow never stops coming it seems.
> 
> Dave
> On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 7:18PM, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:37:07AM -0500, David Leimbach wrote:
> >>4.8 RELEASE doesn't boot on my box...
> >>Hardware is too new I spose... seems to be an ATA thing too.
> >
> >	Hopefully, someone will volunteer to backport all sorts of
> >	things from 5.x, including hardware support excetra.  I just
> >	don't want to swamp Matt with patches. :-)
> >
> >	Cheers.
> >	
> >		-- Hiten (hmp@xxxxxxxxxxx)