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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uop!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!amdahl.uts.amdahl.com!agc From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Subject: Re: drivers for NCR53c810 and 3com 509... Message-ID: <1995Jan18.104632.5888@uts.amdahl.com> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA References: <ccs.790159245@ctdnet> <3fc6lc$6au@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3fhnqg$kqn@unix.sri.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:46:32 GMT Lines: 40 In article <3fhnqg$kqn@unix.sri.com> nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams ) writes: >In article <3fc6lc$6au@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, >Rafal Boni <rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: >>ccs@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu (CHRISTOPHER CSANADY) writes: >> >>>just curious, but which OS (netbsd or freebsd) has better >>>drivers for these boards? the 3com is an ISA card, and >>>i have 32 meg of ram... i have heard that freebsd implements >>>bounce buffers to get around this, but how about netbsd? >> >> I won't comment on which is "better", but the FreeBSD driver is >> based on the NetBSD driver, and an *old* version at that. This > >The *NETBSD* pci/ncr 53c8xx driver is based on an older version of >the FreeBSD driver. One of the pci co-authors is an active FreeBSD developer >so FreeBSD tends to get the newest bits (and bugs) very quickly. I doubt >that Charles has brought in those changes since the NetBSD drivers are >radically different in the configuration mechanism, so porting things across >is getting increasingly difficult. To quote from the NetBSD commit logs: mycroft Mon Jan 16 13:48:38 PST 1995 Update of /b/source/CVS/src/sys/arch/i386/pci In directory sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/d/users/mycroft/src/sys/arch/i386/pci Modified Files: ncr.c Log Message: Incorporate recent changes from Wolfgang. Recognize the 815. And, in passing, I'm fairly happy with my 3c509. This is on NetBSD 1.0a (aka -current). Alistair -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]