Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Justin T. Gibbs]

As always, the latest version of this driver is availalbe here:

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

This site now includes installation instructions, feature set,
etc.  The page is under construction - comments welcome.

For the impatient:

CHANGELOG:
    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/CHANGELOG

2.4.3-patch:
    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.4.3.patch.gz

2.2.19-patch:
    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.2.19.patch.gz

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Justin

Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Wakko Warner]

> As always, the latest version of this driver is availalbe here:
> 
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/
> 
> This site now includes installation instructions, feature set,
> etc.  The page is under construction - comments welcome.
> 
> For the impatient:
> 
> CHANGELOG:
>     http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/CHANGELOG
> 
> 2.4.3-patch:
>     http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.4.3.patch.gz
> 
> 2.2.19-patch:
>     http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.2.19.patch.gz

So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

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Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
>but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

>From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears
that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha.
The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug
it.

--
Justin

Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Alan Cox]

> >So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
> >but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.
> 
> From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears
> that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha.
> The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug
> it.

This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with
2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run
Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Wakko Warner]

> > >So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
> > >but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.
> > 
> > From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears
> > that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha.
> > The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug
> > it.
> 
> This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with
> 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run
> Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Sure, I'll try it.  I didn't have any luck with the one from 2.2.17 or
2.2.18 on this system.

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Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Alan Cox]

> > 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run
> > Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.
> 
> Sure, I'll try it.  I didn't have any luck with the one from 2.2.17 or
> 2.2.18 on this system.

If the original aic7xxx driver works on your Alpha and Justin's does not 
both under 2.2 then I consider it very unlikely the bug is anywhere but Justin's
driver

Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Wakko Warner]

> > >So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
> > >but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.
> > 
> > From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears
> > that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha.
> > The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug
> > it.
> 
> This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with
> 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run
> Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Ok, i tried 2.2.19 with only justin's driver.  everything works.  The tagged
queue is the default, 253, when doing:
for x in b c d;do cp zero sd$x&;done
it works.  2.2.17 stock would give me errors before the end of the write and
just hang.  2.4.x with and without justin's driver would also do the same.

I used 2.2.19 with justin's latest (as of like 3 days ago) driver.  I just
now had time to try it.

I'll give 2.4.1 another try with justin's latest driver (time permitting)

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