Hello,
> If we can get a very small list of adapters everyone thinks are critical to
> Alpha Linux acceptance, maybe a business case could be made. Maybe not, I don't
> know. I know that everyone wants 2940 adapters to be supported (the 39160s
> already are under 5.8, maybe earlier), how about video cards - what's the #1
> video card everyone wants to be able to use that doesn't already work?
> Remember, the latest SRM is 5.8.
Maybe instead of a small list of adapter cards that alpha/linux uses
want/need to use.
How about relaxing the the scope of which SRM decides to support a given
type of card,
for example symbios based cards. I never understood why SRM needed to
KNOW the PCI vendor
ID of evert card it wanted to support. Like symbios support, why doesnt
a fireport 40
show up? It's symbios based, works fine in linux. Same chipset as some
of the older
"supported" scsi cards though it doesnt show up. Now users who want to
get the "SRM supported"
Ultra whatever symbios xxxxx SCSI card have no choice but to go to
intraserver and pay their
prices.
SRM could supply a generic pk driver , gpk if you will. That would try
and start any host
adapter of chipset class X. You get the idea. Adaptec support shouldnt
be a problem at all
to implement. I know Compaq SRM supports the 2940 in DP264 and API's SRM
can support that, the
2940U2 ,and the 160. So it's not like the driver support has been
written it just hasnt been
implemented across ALL Alpha platforms.
As for video cards what I would really like to see is support for ATI's
RADEON and 3Dlab's
GVX1 GLINT based cards. Both are avalable in PCI though I'm told the
current bios emulator
in v5.8 doesnt support it. As for exisitng options for video cards there
are ATI rage 128's, rage pro's,
voodoo 2000,3000, Nvidia TNT2, and Matrox G200. From the traffic on the
DRI lists I don't see a great future in maintaining driver support for
voodoo 4x and 5x. That and with Nvidia buying 3dFX I don't see them
continuing to sell the older V3 line. So that short list will get even
shorter...
> I just want to be clear here - I'm not promising anything personally, and I'm
> certainly not promising anything from Compaq. I'm just saying that a little
> organized thinking about what is the most important might get us a little closer
> to what people are looking for in the next rev. or two. It will certainly get
> us closer than just complaining. ;)
:-)
Peter
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