Subject: Re: port-i386/17900: panic/system hang with Adaptec aic7889 SCSI controller
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/06/2004 10:45:36
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On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:28:13AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
  | > BTW, it's way _long_ past the time that the AHC driver be updated from
  | > FreeBSD again -- hopefully this time whomever does it can keep detail=
ed
  | > notes, maybe even in the form of a transformation script, so that the
  | > port can be done again and again as necessary by pretty much anybody =
and
  | > without so much delay, knashing of teeth and such.
  |=20
  | Not really, the FreeBSD and NetBSD kernel are so different in this area=
 that
  | this can't be done mechanically. It really has to be done by someone who
  | knows what he his doing.

Importing the versions from FreeBSD into cvs vendor branches can help;
at least you can easily see the differences between imports, and it
often helps merge changes between imports.

Of course, I'm sure you knew this :)

Cheers,
Luke.

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