aic7xxx plans

aic7xxx plans

[J . A . Magallon]

Hi.

I have read in the Doug Ledford www page that the drivers for the aic7xxx
card are going to a more or less unmantained state, 'cause he has not the time.
And also recommends to use the Justin Gibbs's ones from FreeBSD. They
are now at version 6.1.1, no more beta.

Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX,
but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a
diff.

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Linux werewolf 2.4.1-ac10 #1 SMP Sun Feb 11 23:36:46 CET 2001 i686

Re: aic7xxx plans

[Alan Cox]

> Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX,
> but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a
> diff.

I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a
total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to Justins driver post
crudfixing that may be needed to make it clean and Linuxish

Re: aic7xxx plans

[Wakko Warner]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX,
> > but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a
> > diff.
> 
> I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a
> total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to Justins driver post
> crudfixing that may be needed to make it clean and Linuxish

I forget the location, where can I get this patch?  I'm running 2.4.1 on an
alpha which has nothing but problems with the aha-2940uw card I have
installed.

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Re: aic7xxx plans

[Matthew Jacob]

See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.


> Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX,
> > > but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a
> > > diff.
> > 
> > I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a
> > total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to Justins driver post
> > crudfixing that may be needed to make it clean and Linuxish
> 
> I forget the location, where can I get this patch?  I'm running 2.4.1 on an
> alpha which has nothing but problems with the aha-2940uw card I have
> installed.
> 
> 

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Matthew Jacob:
> See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.

Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago).

While we're discussing SCSI drivers, I'd also like to put in a good
word for the Sym-2 Symbios/NCR drivers from Gerard Roudier:

    ftp://ftp.tux.org/roudier/drivers/portable/sym-2.1.x/

Joe-Bob says: "Check it out."
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Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

[Matthew Jacob]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> According to Matthew Jacob:
> > See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
> 
> Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
> STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago).

"Justin" not "Jason"

> 
> While we're discussing SCSI drivers, I'd also like to put in a good
> word for the Sym-2 Symbios/NCR drivers from Gerard Roudier:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.tux.org/roudier/drivers/portable/sym-2.1.x/
> 
> Joe-Bob says: "Check it out."

Yes indeed. And he also support FreeBSD too. Very excellent.

Maybe the two of *them* can convince Linus to take the !$*!)$*!)$*~$)* patch
to scsi_syms.c that exports the add/del timer functions....

Re: aic7xxx plans

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a
>total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to Justins driver post
>crudfixing that may be needed to make it clean and Linuxish

Can you be more specific about your complaints?

--
Justin

Re: aic7xxx plans

[Alan Cox]

> I forget the location, where can I get this patch?  I'm running 2.4.1 on an
> alpha which has nothing but problems with the aha-2940uw card I have
> installed.

You would do. The AIC7xxx driver in 2.4 < 2.4.1ac10 or so is not 64bit clean
Give 2.4.1ac12 a spin or try Justins driver (dont have the URL handy)

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

[Alan Cox]

> Maybe the two of *them* can convince Linus to take the !$*!)$*!)$*~$)* patch
> to scsi_syms.c that exports the add/del timer functions....

Umm Eric Youngdale is Mr SCSI

Re: aic7xxx plans

[Alan Cox]

> >I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a
> >total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to Justins driver post
> >crudfixing that may be needed to make it clean and Linuxish
> 
> Can you be more specific about your complaints?

Im not complaining ?