[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

[John William]

Removing the AM53C974 driver sounds like a good idea, but be aware that the 
tmscsim driver included on the RedHat driver disks (for people who have to 
boot by floppy) causes a panic on boot ever since 7.3 on XU 5/90 machines. 
The AM53C974 driver is very minimalistic, but seems to work. Once the system 
is installed, the AM53C974 driver isn't stable long-term and I have to use 
tmscsim.

So before deleting the driver, keep in mind that without it, there would be 
no way to install RedHat's distros on the older Vectra's. Of course the 
tmscsim driver included on the RedHat driver disk could be broken...

- John

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