From owner-aic7xxx Wed Jan 21 16:49:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18786 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:49:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx) Received: from shodan.in-trier.de (root@shodan.in-trier.de [198.22.51.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18778 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linux@bero-online.ml.org) Received: from localhost (root@ufp.in-trier.de [198.22.51.119]) by shodan.in-trier.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA14591; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 03:08:18 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 00:24:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer X-Sender: linux@ufp.in-trier.de To: Doug Ledford cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] Re: aic7xxx-5.0.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Doug Ledford wrote: > >It is not compatible with recent Linux 2.1.x kernels... > > Well, I didn't expect it to be really :) At least in my original > announcement about 5.0.0 I did remember to point out it was against 2.0.33 > and not likely to work in 2.1.x :) It works in 2.1.x with only minor changes - I've been running a kernel with an adapted 5.0.1 (ftp.bero-online.ml.org /pub/linux/aic7xxx-5.0.1-linux21.tar.gz) for five hours now, and it works perfectly. You'll need to find a way to patch pci.c and printk.c only if the kernel is 2.0.x, though... > So, it may still require some changes to fundamental design > issues when considering 2.1.x (including my plans for using the spin locks > instead of cli()/sti() stuff like it does in 2.0.x) But, for my part > anyway, that's still future speak :) I, for my part, will try to keep running it under 2.1.x. ;) LLaP bero -- bero@bero-online.ml.org - ICQ/UIN 6545964 - http://www.star-trek.ml.org/ -- "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981 "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996 "Nobody will ever need Windows 95." -- logical conclusion