Re: OpenFirmware and interrupt-map

[Stefan Reinauer]

* YhLu  [040205 02:39]:
> Some SCSI addon card has another EEPROM for FW, and the controller will work
> after power is on.
>
> For onboard SCSI, may spare that EEPROM and need option rom to download fw
> into it.
> From what I heard about the LSI1030, nobody ever built a board with this

extra eeprom actually connected, so there is no real alternative other
than downloading the controller firmware
> Actually the FW download and controller starting can be done by Linux kernel
> driver.

Aha! This sounds really interesting. Looking into the code, there is
/dev/mptctl. This can be used for firmware upload/download (ioctl
interface) - Is there a utility to do this, yet?

Stefan