Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 16:16:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Isely <isely@enteract.com> To: Ken Garlock <k-garlock@ti.com> Cc: aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which driver update to use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980609160909.14061B-100000@nathan.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <002501bd93c0$e161f860$410819ac@c0153445.itg.ti.com>
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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ken Garlock wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I just upgraded my system from Redhat 5.0 to Redhat 5.1, and all went very
> smoothly. That is a first for me and Redhat -- I am pleased to see the
> progress. BTW, the system is a PPRO 200 with 2940U, 2 Quantum Atlas 2.2 GB,
> and 1 IBM 9.1 GB, no Ultra drives.
>
> One problem I did see, but only once so far, was a scsi timeout which I had
> never experienced before, the system recovered and kept running. My kernel
> is 2.0.34 with 5.0.13 patch level for aic7xxx. This is straight out of the
> box Redhat 5.1 with the 5.1 patches from Sunsite.unc.edu.
>
> So, I thought I would go to Doug's ftp site and pick up the latest patch
> level for the driver, 5.0.18. Well, when I got there I was somewhat
> confused as to which code to bring down. There are several flavors of
> updates, and I need guidance as how to proceed. Should I slam-dunk a
> complete 5.0.18, or should I incredmentally move up to it through the "a to
> b" patch deltas? **Which directory to I pull from?
Ken:
I couldn't find an appropriate patch at all when I did this last weekend.
Since 2.0.34 seems to include the 5.0.14 driver, just using the patch
against 2.0.33 wasn't likely to work (since 2.0.33 includes a far older
driver). I didn't want to use the 5.0.14 driver either since previous
experience with it for me was complete breakage (system wouldn't even
boot). So here's what I did: I grabbed the full distributions for both
5.0.14 and 5.0.18 drivers and expanded them on my system. Then I used
diff to compute a relative patch between those two versions and I applied
THAT against a vanilla 2.0.34 Linux source tree. The patch applied
perfectly, everything compiled beautifully, and the system has remained
stable with this new kernel ever since.
>
> Since Redhat 5.1 is shipping (got mine by FedEx last Friday), it might be
> good to publish a set of steps to move from the Redhat base distribution to
> the latest driver level.
>
> Doug Ledford, What do you recommend?
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Regards,
> Ken Garlock k-garlock@ti.com
> These are my comments, not my employer's who is Solaris fan.
>
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