cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 ct.4

[Roman Kurakin]

Hi,

Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote:

>In article <20040303.102155.38697537.imp at bsdimp.com>
>"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
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>>There cannot be the case where one person would want to use both forms
>>of the ct driver.  The dev/ctau driver supports only ISA cards (and no
>>pc98 machines have ISA expansion slots).  The dev/ct driver supports
>>only CBUS cards, and there's no non-pc98 machines that have CBUS
>>slots.  While many architectures have ISA slots (i386, alpha), none
>>have both.
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>The scsi ct driver supports wd33c93 chip which is used not only PC98
>Cbus cards but other machines (ex. Amiga).  So, *If* FreeBSD will
>support the arch in the future, the same problem will happen.
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>And, I wonder that the pci devices with hd64570 chip exist, or not.
>If exist, the device may work for pc98.  BTW, the ntwoc driver on
>NetBSD has pci fontend.
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Cronyx/Tau is not compatible with other devices based on hd64570, cause 
we have some
additional logic. For pci devices we use another controllers (PEB 20534 
(cp) and Munich 32(ce)).
Those devices are also incompatible with other devices based on those 
controllers because of
additional logic. So I can assure that ctau driver wouldn't support 
other devices in near future.
If we decide to make a new device based on this controller, I'll choose 
another names for it.

Best regards,
                      Roman Kurakin

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>TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan at jp.FreeBSD.org>
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