[BUG] new aic code [was Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G ]

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 2002.12.28 Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > [riel@conectiva.com.br]
> > 
> > On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > 
> > > Unfortunately, the versions of the aic7xxx driver that are in the main
> > > trees (both nearly a year out of date) don't have this test and, like the
> > > "old" driver, they default to memory mapped I/O.  One of the reasons I've
> > > been pushing so hard for this new driver to go into the tree is that 90%
> > > of the complaints about the new driver would go away if it were updated
> > > to a sane revision.
> > 
> > Ohhhh, that would certainly explain.  Where could I get a patch
> > to update a recent 2.4 kernel to your latest aic7xxx driver ?
> > 
> > I'll happily test it on the machines where I have access...
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/aic79xx-linux-2.4-20021220.tar.gz
> (Both the 7xxx and 79xx drivers are included.)
> 

When building firmware,
aicasm hangs if you do not select CONFIG_AIC7???_REG_PRETTY_PRINT (no -p
option passed to aicasm, so dfile is NULL inside symtable_dump() for
the fputs...).

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