Subject: Re: 1.6 on IPC (tagged queuing bug still there)
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/05/2002 15:49:24
[ On Thursday, September 5, 2002 at 19:09:39 (+0100), David Brownlee wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: 1.6 on IPC (tagged queuing bug still there)
>
> I think the point is the default should be to disable it until
> someone can fix it - as is now NetBSD will fail to run out of
> the box on some drives.
Yes but please lets not disable something that's not causing problems.
Perhaps on the ESP100 specifically, but it's certainly not a problem for
non-buggy drives on ESP200 (I have several working happily). Users with
buggy drives must deal with their own problems and I don't believe such
buggy drives are that common.
(upon a slightly closer look it doesn't appear the underlying ncr53c9x
support code has a "quirk table" or other facility for registering
drives which seem to support tagged queuing but don't implement it
properly)
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