Re: 2.4.20pre7, aic7xxx-6.2.8: Panic: HOST_MSG_LOOP with invalid SCB 0

Marcelo Tosatti
2002-09-23T18:41:14Z

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> > Justin,
> >
> > I guess is the second or third report of problems with the new aic7xxx :(
>
> This issue has already been resolved as a chipset issue requiring
> I/O mapped register access to work around. The "old" aic7xxx driver
> avoids these issues by issuing a register read after every register
> write. This stops up your PCI bus with wasted cycles even if you have
> a perfectly working chipset.
>
> So, how would you like me to resolve this. We can do the same thing
> as Adaptec's windows drivers and just always use the slower, less
> efficient I/O mapped method for accessing registers. This will "fix"
> the problems people have with broken VIA and Intel chipsets. I can
> make this a compile and run-time option, but should we default to
> I/O mapped or memory mapped?
>
> Don't you just love broken PC hardware?

Its all fine, then: I thought the problems were caused by some bug in the
driver itself.

Thanks for explaining me the issue clearly. :)