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- From: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Suggestion to somebody who's really bored (hack SCSI driver!)
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 02:49:12 -0700
- Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
- Lines: 44
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <14ojmoINN8j4@agate.berkeley.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu
- Summary: 386bsd SCSI driver needs rewrite; make nice project for somebody
- Keywords: SCSI, ugly, 386bsd, boredom, project, driver, panic, crash, burn
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- Any *bored* 386bsd 0.1 hackers out there?
-
- Here's a suggestion for a project:
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- re-write Pace Willison's SCSI driver...
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- He's not going to have a chance to work on it much more, as i
- understand, and, in my opinion, it *DEFINITELY* needs work...
-
- Note, however, that this would require some *major* design changes --
-
- when i say it needs work, i mean "you should have the disk and tape
- drivers *outside* the SCSI controller driver, *AND* there should
- be the possibility of dropping in *OTHER* SCSI controller drivers,
- if they're ever written...", etc...
-
- this would do several things:
-
- (1) Make disk and tape devices easier to debug,
- (2) make the scsi controller driver easier to debug (and make the
- interface "line" nicer...)
- (3) allow people to add drivers for new SCSI controllers more easily,
- and, finally,
- (4) allow people to add drivers for new SCSI devices more easily...
-
- If no body bites on this one, i'll probably start work on it
- when i get a "real" machine capable of running 386bsd ... (while
- a 4M 386-20, with 100M disk is better than some systems and is,
- in fact better than what 386bsd was developed on, I don't really
- want to suffer that much... 8-)
-
- If you're thinking about doing something along these lines,
- send me mail! i'd be glad to discuss it w/people, and if they (you?)
- want to do it, i wouldn't mind writing some of the drivers...
-
-
- cheers,
-
- Chris
- --
- Chris G. Demetriou
- cgd@berkeley.edu
-
- I'm not from the computer center, and I'm *NOT* here to help *YOU*!
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