From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from beavis.ybsoft.com (bradetich.net [209.161.7.161]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15EAC482A for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:22:49 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Fast-Wide Diff. SCSI on a 735 From: Ryan Bradetich To: Richard Hirst Cc: Andy Walker , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: <20020530081452.GS3471@sleepie.demon.co.uk> References: <200205291104.AA315359834@mail.centraltx.com> <20020529201334.8C23C482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> <1022707216.3cf54610c5ee8@nyepost.start.no> <20020530081452.GS3471@sleepie.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: 02 Jun 2002 19:22:47 -0600 Message-Id: <1023067367.7187.3.camel@beavis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I am still interested in working on this. I have some preliminary patches that I could update to CVS head, but they really do not get very far. During OLS I/We plan on working on this driver some more. I believe the victim system is already present in Ottawa now :) Thanks, - Ryan On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 02:14, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:20:16PM +0200, Andy Walker wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just picked up a free 735/99 today, so suddenly I've become interested > > in the status of the Outfield 53c720 driver. Has there been any progress > > or is there just no information available? I'd be happy to test patches - > > or even dive into the code myself, but without docs that sounds a little > > pointless. > > Specs for Outfield are available now, look for hardball_ers.pdf on the > web site. > > Other 53c720 interfaces (e.g. bluefish) are supported via the > ncr53c8xx.c driver, but that doesn't work for outfield because the 735 > is not cache coherent. My next idea was to add basic 53c720 support to > the 53c700 driver, as that works older hardware. Ryan was interested in > looking at that a while back, but I don't know what happened. My excuse > is that I don't have 735 h/w to test on so it is no fun - but that's a > poor excuse really as I could use my bluefish card to get 53c700 working > with 53c720. > > 53c700.c would drive the 53c720 chip in 53c700 mode, so would be > relatively low performance (more interrupts than you would need if you > made the most of the 53c720 features), and it would be 8 bit only. > Those issues could perhaps be fixed in time, and it would be better than > nothing, anyway. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux >