Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel 2.6.x

[Rodrigo Severo <rodrigo.lists@fabricadeideias.com>]

Pozsar Balazs wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
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>>>with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
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>>>I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for 
>>>this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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>It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)
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>Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.
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>I do not know why was it marked as such.
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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

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