James C. McPherson wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> "Garrett D'Amore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>> What is the reason for not having a 64 bit version of the ncrs driver?
>>>>
>>>> I just installed a Dawicontrol board with the Symbios Logic 53c895
>>>> chip
>>>> but it does not work as there is only a 32 bit ncrs driver.
>>
>>> Ancient chip, that will someday soon probably be EOF'd, combined
>>> with lack of engineering resource to properly qualify (and possibly
>>> make changes to support) a 64-bit version of the driver?
>>>
>>> In many cases adding 64-bit support is not a huge effort, but it
>>> isn't automatic either.
>>
>> OK, then I'll look whether I can make it work.
>
> Please do not bother - use the glm(7D) driver instead.
>
> The code in ncrs and glm come from the same base, but
> ncrs was never maintained. Work was done a few years
> back to get glm working on x64, and that is a *much*
> better solution.
>
> I did log an RFE to get ncrs(7d) EOF'd, but it's in
> limbo - brings up the whole "how do we migrate from
> one driver to another" set of problems.
It seems like we already have a serious transition problem from S10 to
OpenSolaris -- no upgrade path exists short of full reinstall. Perhaps
OpenSolaris can switch to glm.
-- Garrett
>
>
> James C. McPherson
> --
> Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
> Sun Microsystems
> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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