From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rodrigo Severo Subject: Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:21:44 -0300 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41548FFE.60803@fabricadeideias.com> References: <4151A24A.7000302@fabricadeideias.com> <20040922170651.A3340@infradead.org> <20040922201424.GC2098@unicorn.sch.bme.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from scorsese.fabricadeideias.com.br ([200.157.56.34]:48269 "EHLO scorsese.fabricadeideias.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268899AbUIXVVr (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:21:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040922201424.GC2098@unicorn.sch.bme.hu> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Pozsar Balazs Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Pozsar Balazs wrote: >On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote: >> >> >>>with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old). >>> >>>I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for >>>this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x? >>> >>>I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their >>>code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x? >>> >>>Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it? >>> >>> >>The driver still exists and actually compiles. It's marked BROKEN, although >>I don't know why. If you want to help testing we can update it to current >>standards. >> >> > >It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.) > >Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off. > >I do not know why was it marked as such. > In fact it works just fine for me too. As Christoph Hellwig latest message suggested I was suffering lack-of-st-driver sickness *:"> As far as I can tell the driver is really fine. Maybe it's time to remove the BROKEN flag from it? I am not sure who is responsible for this but here is my Works For Me vote. Thanks you all for your help, Rodrigo Severo *