Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:43:44 +0200 From: Stephane Bunel <s.bunel@medcost.fr> To: markjt@fredo.co.uk Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 7899 & 7880 Message-ID: <390030E0.2ED2163F@medcost.fr> References: <200004210949.KAA00322@fredo1.fredo.co.uk>
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Mark Tiramani a =E9crit : > = > > I just receive a DELL 4400 with 7899 & 7880 chip controler. I'm > > surprized to notice that the Linux Kernel 2.2.14 doesn't find > > those controlers. After take a look in the driver source code, > > I saw those chip are well handled. What append ? > = > It's not the aic7xxx driver that's causing the problems: > We have just been through the same problem this week. > 2.2.14 does indeed support the 789x, including the 7899 but: > Dell are '...using two Northbridges which messed up PCI device detectio= n > and another problem that messed up the IO-APIC in the kernel.' > I'm quoting from the person that got us fixed up with patches and a boo= t disk. > Dell UK have not been very helpfull so we had to turn to US help. I am = using > Slackware 7 and I'm waiting for clearance to publish the patches or see= if > someone else can. I don't know what the game is but Dell UK said 'we ha= ve our > own kernel...' which really stinks unless they make their patches open = source > (it's possible they are but we simply haven't been able to verify that = and it's now > a long holiday weekend here so everywhere's closed). > = > Neither patch is for aic7xxx.c which does its job as nicely as ever. Th= ey are for: > include/linux/pci.h > and > arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c Thanks for you complete response. However when I boot with the 1.7.185 tomsrtbt distribution (kernel 2.0.36)(http://www.toms.net/rb/mirrors.linux.html) the controlers are well detected and I can mount the disks. Stephane. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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