Re: Proposal to remove driver for the Cabletron EA41x SCSI Ethernet adapter

John Klos <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Mar 2020 02:21:51 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network,gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

>> We have a driver for this device in sys/dev/scsipi/if_se.c.  It was 
>> pretty popular with the pc532 crowd back in the day because SCSI was 
>> the only expansion bus the pc532 had.
>>
>> There are changes coming to the network stack and it's unlikely that 
>> (a) anyone has such a device to test it, and (b) that the driver even 
>> works currently because it's been so long since probably anyone ran 
>> this code.
>>
>> I propose we remove this driver.

If it's not too much work, it might be worth keeping because some newer 
hardware will emulate it:

https://hackaday.io/project/18974-tiny-scsi-emulator

If this is the same chip as is in the DaynaPort SCSI-Link-T, I can offer 
to test the driver.

John