Onboard SCSI controller support on Ultra 2

Pyun YongHyeon yongari at kt-is.co.kr
Wed Feb 16 18:49:00 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:02:08PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
[...]
 > 
 > > 
 > > > > The prob i did find was with QFE card support; they all appear as
 > > > > hme, have the correct individual MAC addresses--- but little else,
 > > > > and errors galore.
 > > 
 > > The QFE actually *is* a quad HME card, that's why FreeBSD uses the
 > > same driver for it.  What kind of problems do you have with it?
 > > 
 > > I've only used PCI-based QFEs so far, but never encountered any
 > > problems with them -- they even make a fine Quad card in IA32 machines
 > > now that FreeBSD supports them outside of OpenFirmware systems.
 > > 
 > 
 > AFAIK the SBus QFE cards only have a single interrupt for all four
 > HMEs and the FreeBSD hme(4) doesn't take this into account.
 > 
AFAIK HME interrupt handler is called with softc argument. So I guess
there is no problem since it can correctly find an instance of softc
and related information.
-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari	|	yongari at freebsd.org


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