On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
I am more concerned by compatibility of card firmware with existing
PPC
macs.
I'm not too worried about this. Most cards don't need firmware
unless they are
either a) the primary video adapter or b) the controller for the boot
volume.
I can't speak to a), but WRT b), the 3ware FCode I wrote comes in
under 8K
without any attempt on my part at optimisation. I had no trouble
sneaking that
into the existing 3ware ROM image.
More worrying is the lack of good documentation or folks willing to
write the
code in the first place.
