status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers

status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers

[Christoph Hellwig]

Hi all,

you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal.  Which frontends to NCR5380
do you test at the moment, or could you test?

NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers still
using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd like to
either move them to this century or to the dust bin.

The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.

Thanks,
	Christoph

Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers

[Ondrej Zary]

On Sunday 11 September 2016 19:12:49 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal.  Which frontends to NCR5380
> do you test at the moment, or could you test?
>
> NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers still
> using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd like to
> either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
>
> The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.
>
> Thanks,
> 	Christoph

I have the HW to test g_NCR5380 - it currently works fine as it did never 
before.
I started a patch to for scsi_module.c removal (and other good things) but 
haven't had time to finish it. Hopefully, it will be ready soon.

-- 
Ondrej Zary

dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers

[Finn Thain]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal.  Which frontends to 
> NCR5380 do you test at the moment, or could you test?

I test the dmx3191d and mac_scsi drivers.

> 
> NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers 
> still using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd 
> like to either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
> 
> The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.

I don't have any hardware with an ISA slot so I take a best-effort 
approach to maintaining those drivers.

I have not heard of anyone actually using dtc, pas16 or t128 so I don't 
mind seeing them removed (along with Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt).

BTW, DTC3x80 support (NCR 53C406 chip I believe) should be easy to do in 
g_NCR5380, which already supports the DTC3181E card.

-- 

> 
> Thanks,
> 	Christoph

Re: dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers

[Finn Thain]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, I wrote:

> 
> BTW, DTC3x80 support (NCR 53C406 chip I believe) should be easy to do in 
> g_NCR5380, which already supports the DTC3181E card.
> 

Sorry, I should have written DTC406 chip, which is "supposedly compatible 
with the NCR 53C400" but is nothing like a NCR 53C406.

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Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers

[Michael Schmitz]

Christoph,

I test the atari_scsi front end - haven't got any ISA cards handy.
Probably no ISA slots on my PC main board either ...

Cheers,

	Michael

Am 12.09.2016 um 05:12 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> Hi all,
> 
> you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal.  Which frontends to NCR5380
> do you test at the moment, or could you test?
> 
> NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers still
> using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd like to
> either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
> 
> The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Christoph
>