Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G

Marcelo Tosatti
2002-12-28T08:32:46Z

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Samuel Flory wrote:

> Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>
> >>I have an Adaptec AIC-7897 Ultra2 SCSI adapter on a system with 8G
> >>of physical memory. The adapter is using bounce buffers when DMA'ing
> >>to memory >4G because of a bug in the aic7xxx driver.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This has been fixed in both the aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers for some
> >time. The problem is that these later revisions have not been integrated
> >into the mainline trees.
> >
> >
> >
> Marcelo, what is required get the aic79xx driver, and the aic7xxx
> updates into 2.4.21? A number of linux distros are already using it.
> It would really help people using board with the U320.
>
> I've been using both drivers for some time with no issues. Or maybe
> you'd prefer Alan put it in his tree 1st?

Ho, hum, I prefer getting it tested in -ac for a while first.