[RFC] killing the AMD53C974 and mac_NCR5380 drivers

[RFC] killing the AMD53C974 and mac_NCR5380 drivers

[Christoph Hellwig]

Anyone screaming loudly if we remove them?

 - AMD53C974 is broken and doesn't even compile, all supported hardware is
   handled by the mainted tmscsim driver.
 - mac_NCR5380 isn't even referenced in the build and hasn't been at
   least since 2.4
                           

Re: [RFC] killing the AMD53C974 and mac_NCR5380 drivers

[Robert Gadsdon]

I always had problems with the AMD53C974 driver even back in 2.2.x days. 
  On several old HP XU/90 and XU/120 Vectras I had to specify the 
TMSCSIM driver to get SCSI to work.....

Robert Gadsdon.

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Anyone screaming loudly if we remove them?
> 
>  - AMD53C974 is broken and doesn't even compile, all supported hardware is
>    handled by the mainted tmscsim driver.
>  - mac_NCR5380 isn't even referenced in the build and hasn't been at
>    least since 2.4
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Re: [RFC] killing the AMD53C974 and mac_NCR5380 drivers

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Alexander Schunk wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> well, if this AMD is related to i686 computers, yes. What exactly is this good for??

Hehe, AMD makes/made more chips then just CPUs.  This is a scsi
controller, but I haven't seen people using it on non-x86 machines yet,
but it's just a simple PCI card or sometimes even an onboard chip IIRC.

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