From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Aic7xxx 6.2.28 and Aic79xx 1.3.0 Released Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:50:33 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <87730000.1043275833@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti GNU patch relative to 2.5.59: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/aic79xx-linux-2.5.59-20030122-gnupatch.gz BK send and tarball distributions: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/aic79xx-linux-2.4-20030122.bksend.gz http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/aic79xx-linux-2.5-20030122.bksend.gz http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/aic79xx-linux-2.4-20030122-tar.gz http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/aic79xx-linux-2.5-20030122-tar.gz Driver update diskettes for most distributions: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/DUD/aic7xxx/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/DUD/aic79xx/ RPMs for most distributions: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/RPM/aic7xxx/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/RPM/aic79xx/ Changes since the driver versions incorperated in 2.5.59: ChangeSet@1.961, 2003-01-22 15:09:24-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Bump aic79xx driver version number to 1.3.0, now that it has passed functional test. ChangeSet@1.960, 2003-01-22 14:44:51-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Update Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver documentation. ChangeSet@1.959, 2003-01-20 16:46:37-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Aic7xxx Driver Update 6.2.28 o Add some more DV diagnostic code o Fix bug that caused sequencer debug code to be downloaded always. Aic79xx Driver Update 1.3.0.RC2 o Correct a regression in RC1 that effectively limited DV to just ID 0. o Add some more DV diagnostic code o Misc code cleanups. ChangeSet@1.958, 2003-01-17 14:49:42-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update Force an SDTR after a rejected WDTR if the syncrate is unkonwn. ChangeSet@1.957, 2003-01-17 13:20:53-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Bump aic7xxx driver version to 6.2.27. ChangeSet@1.956, 2003-01-17 13:17:49-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Aic7xxx Driver Update: o Determine more conclusively that a BIOS has initialized the adapter before using "left over BIOS settings". o Adapt to upcoming removal of cmd->target/channel/lun/host in 2.5.X o Fix a memory leak on driver unload. o Enable the pci_parity command line option and default to pci parity error detection *disabled*. There are just too many broken VIA chipsets out there. o Move more functionality into aiclib to share with the aic79xx driver. o Correct a few negotiation regressions. o Don't bother doing full DV on devices that only support async transfers. This should fix a few more of the reported problems with DV. Aic79xx Driver Update o Add abort and bus device reset handlers. o Fix a memory leak on driver unload. o Adapt to upcoming removal of cmd->target/channel/lun/host in 2.5.X. o Correct a few negotiation regressions. ChangeSet@1.955, 2003-01-17 12:18:22-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Aic79xx Driver Update Enable abort and bus device reset handlers for both legacy and packetized connections. ChangeSet@1.954, 2003-01-17 12:10:23-07:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com Aic7xxx and Aic79xx DV Fix: Don't bother with DV if the device can only do async