From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lamar Owen Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:30:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Sun Enterprise 6500. 10xUltraSPARC/400MHz, 10Gb mem Message-Id: <200603241930.29188.lowen@pari.edu> List-Id: References: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> In-Reply-To: <87d5gegxf3.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Friday 24 March 2006 17:33, David S. Miller wrote: > The SOC/SOC+ drivers are known to be busted. Ben Collins and > I have taken stabs recently to try and get it working with > only limited luck. > And even if we get it working, folks will need to extract the SOC/SOC+ > firmware out of the Solaris driver by hand and include it into a > custom build of the Linux driver in order to get a working setup. Thanks for the confirmation. To anyone's knowledge, is there a non-busted SBUS FC-AL driver out there (perhaps for the JNI cards)? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu