I have spent a bit of time to try to port the Linux 2.4 based Promise SX6000 ATA RAID controller driver to the 2.6 kernels but have gotten myself stuck.
I know very little about writing Linux SCSI drivers and have obviously done something very wrong. The drive compiles, loads, detects the controller and even the arrays attached to the controller but hangs the system (hard - no keyboard, mouse, etc response) 5-10 seconds after loading. I am quite suspicious of the scatter gather mappings (again, something I have no experience with). The original driver also uses kmalloc to allocate its DMA buffers. I have read a bit about pci_allocate_consistent, but do not know how to properly use the virtual and physical addresses returned. The following patch is against a stock 2.6.10 kernel. All of the files associated with the driver get placed in drivers/scsi/sx6000/ http://www.vortech.net/~jjackson/pti-sx6000.patch.gz Any help in getting this driver functioning would be greatly appreciated. -- Joshua Jackson Vortech Consulting http://www.vortech.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
