>BTW, is there really enough common ground between the whole series of
>AIC chips to justify a single huge driver? I know they ship three
>separate NT drivers to cover this range..
The chips are very similar. I think the single driver for Linux is
actually a smaller binary than any of the
> May-be this is the reason some UNIX vendors seem to love UDI. :)
>
> If you also use SYMBIOS chips, you may give a try with SYM-2. For the
> moment, it replaces only 6 drivers :) as also seems to do, for the moment,
> Justin's AIC7XXX-6, by the way.
>
> The plans seem clear to me. :-)
> Btw,
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Justin Gibbs]
> > I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus
> > far covering the full range of chips from aic7770->aic7899.
>
> That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new
> hardware; that's
[Justin Gibbs]
> I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus
> far covering the full range of chips from aic7770->aic7899.
That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new
hardware; that's why I was concerned.
> Lots of people here at Adaptec look
PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 7:06 PM
To: Nathan Black
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
[Nathan Black]
> This really improved the performance of my dual PIII-866 w/512MB Ram
> and AIC7899 scsi.
[...]
> I would suggest, if at all possible, puttin
PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 7:06 PM
To: Nathan Black
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
[Nathan Black]
This really improved the performance of my dual PIII-866 w/512MB Ram
and AIC7899 scsi.
[...]
I would suggest, if at all possible, putting this in
[Justin Gibbs]
I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus
far covering the full range of chips from aic7770-aic7899.
That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new
hardware; that's why I was concerned.
Lots of people here at Adaptec look at
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Justin Gibbs]
I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus
far covering the full range of chips from aic7770-aic7899.
That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new
hardware; that's why I was
May-be this is the reason some UNIX vendors seem to love UDI. :)
If you also use SYMBIOS chips, you may give a try with SYM-2. For the
moment, it replaces only 6 drivers :) as also seems to do, for the moment,
Justin's AIC7XXX-6, by the way.
The plans seem clear to me. :-)
Btw, I _do_
BTW, is there really enough common ground between the whole series of
AIC chips to justify a single huge driver? I know they ship three
separate NT drivers to cover this range..
The chips are very similar. I think the single driver for Linux is
actually a smaller binary than any of the
>Have you any idea the breadth of cards and chips that aic7xxx supports?
>Sure, Justin's driver does great with your shiny new 7899, but can you
>verify that it also drives the 8-year-old EISA AHA-2740 I still have
>sitting around (actually retired to the parts pile, but that's beside
>the point,
Have you any idea the breadth of cards and chips that aic7xxx supports?
Sure, Justin's driver does great with your shiny new 7899, but can you
verify that it also drives the 8-year-old EISA AHA-2740 I still have
sitting around (actually retired to the parts pile, but that's beside
the point, I'm
[Nathan Black]
> This really improved the performance of my dual PIII-866 w/512MB Ram
> and AIC7899 scsi.
[...]
> I would suggest, if at all possible, putting this in the 2.4.2
> kernel.
Have you any idea the breadth of cards and chips that aic7xxx supports?
Sure, Justin's driver does great
[Nathan Black]
This really improved the performance of my dual PIII-866 w/512MB Ram
and AIC7899 scsi.
[...]
I would suggest, if at all possible, putting this in the 2.4.2
kernel.
Have you any idea the breadth of cards and chips that aic7xxx supports?
Sure, Justin's driver does great with
On 02.15 Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to J . A . Magallon:
>
> Might I suggest that Justin imitate the maintainers of lm_sensors, and
> create a program (shell script, Perl program, whatever) that *creates*
> a patch against any given Linux source tree? Obviously it could break
> in the
According to J . A . Magallon:
> Please, I think it would be much more useful a patch against the latest
> 2.2.19-pre (if that one for 2.2.18 does not work, I have not tried)
> and the latest 2.4.1-ac14, that is what people experiments with.
There's no end of versions that people use.
Might I
On 02.15 Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >All of my boxes with that card are on 2.2.16. The rest are on 2.4.1, so I
> >don't really have a need to test 2.2.18 as I would rather be on 2.4.x for
> >all of my boxes.
>
> Well, I'll try and generate patches against 2.2.16 soon. I probably
> need to
>All of my boxes with that card are on 2.2.16. The rest are on 2.4.1, so I
>don't really have a need to test 2.2.18 as I would rather be on 2.4.x for
>all of my boxes.
Well, I'll try and generate patches against 2.2.16 soon. I probably
need to support 2.2.14 too. There are already so many
1 9:36 AM
> To: Matt Liotta
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
>
>
> >I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would
> really like to see
> >this driver in 2.4.2.
>
> Have you tested the 2.2.18 version of the new dri
>I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would really like to see
>this driver in 2.4.2.
Have you tested the 2.2.18 version of the new driver? The patches
should work on most 2.2.X kernels, I just haven't gotten around to
verifying that. The more testers, the merrier! :-)
--
Justin
-
I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would really like to see
this driver in 2.4.2.
-Matt
> -Original Message-
> From: Nathan Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: aic7xxx (and s
Warner; Alan Cox; J . A . Magallon; linux-kernel
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
According to Matthew Jacob:
> See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or did
> Maybe the two of *them* can convince Linus to take the !$*!)$*!)$*~$)* patch
> to scsi_syms.c that exports the add/del timer functions
Umm Eric Youngdale is Mr SCSI
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More
Maybe the two of *them* can convince Linus to take the !$*!)$*!)$*~$)* patch
to scsi_syms.c that exports the add/del timer functions
Umm Eric Youngdale is Mr SCSI
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More
Warner; Alan Cox; J . A . Magallon; linux-kernel
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
According to Matthew Jacob:
See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't
I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would really like to see
this driver in 2.4.2.
-Matt
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
I
I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would really like to see
this driver in 2.4.2.
Have you tested the 2.2.18 version of the new driver? The patches
should work on most 2.2.X kernels, I just haven't gotten around to
verifying that. The more testers, the merrier! :-)
--
Justin
-
To: Matt Liotta
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
I am still stuck on 2.2 because of this issue. I would
really like to see
this driver in 2.4.2.
Have you tested the 2.2.18 version of the new driver? The patches
should work on most 2.2.X kernels, I just
All of my boxes with that card are on 2.2.16. The rest are on 2.4.1, so I
don't really have a need to test 2.2.18 as I would rather be on 2.4.x for
all of my boxes.
Well, I'll try and generate patches against 2.2.16 soon. I probably
need to support 2.2.14 too. There are already so many
On 02.15 Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
All of my boxes with that card are on 2.2.16. The rest are on 2.4.1, so I
don't really have a need to test 2.2.18 as I would rather be on 2.4.x for
all of my boxes.
Well, I'll try and generate patches against 2.2.16 soon. I probably
need to support 2.2.14
According to J . A . Magallon:
Please, I think it would be much more useful a patch against the latest
2.2.19-pre (if that one for 2.2.18 does not work, I have not tried)
and the latest 2.4.1-ac14, that is what people experiments with.
There's no end of versions that people use.
Might I
On 02.15 Chip Salzenberg wrote:
According to J . A . Magallon:
Might I suggest that Justin imitate the maintainers of lm_sensors, and
create a program (shell script, Perl program, whatever) that *creates*
a patch against any given Linux source tree? Obviously it could break
in the face
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Matthew Jacob:
> > See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
>
> Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
> STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago).
"Justin" not "Jason"
>
>
According to Matthew Jacob:
> See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago).
While we're discussing SCSI drivers, I'd also like to put in a good
word for the
According to Matthew Jacob:
See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago).
While we're discussing SCSI drivers, I'd also like to put in a good
word for the
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
According to Matthew Jacob:
See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux.
Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel
STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago).
"Justin" not "Jason"
While
36 matches
Mail list logo
