On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:37:47AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > "dumb" is relative and fungible.
Sure.. > It's a tradeoff between doing the connection management in firmware (as with > the QLogic) or in the Kernel (as with Tachyon products mostly). It depends on > whom you believe ultimately does a better job. Well, I generally would like to put my money on the firmware. This assumes (as always..) good firmware. > Doing it in firmware allows the driver writer to manage the ULP stuff a lot > better because you're not so distracted by the low level ruckus. <nod> > Doing it in the kernel allows you to avoid all those nagging and persistent > questions of "why the hell did the f/w do/say/barf&&turn-left-against-a-red > *that*?" But it tends to produce horrible drivers if you are not very careful. I remember a WD33C93 driver here.. <shiver> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:49:19AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > That is probably what we call the Jaguar in-house. It is (IIRC) a > > dumb adapter, there is a Tachyon on it for sure. > > > > Wilko ---end of quoted text--- -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
