Question for Marcelo
Hi Marcelo,
I was just wondering if support for the Adaptec 79xx had been added to 2.4.21-pre? I have a server with the dual channel 7902 support on board, that so far appears to be working OK. It's using 2.4.20 with the driver patched in from Adaptec's site. I found an earlier mail from you stating that it would be added during the 2.4.20-pre cycle. Are there problems with the driver I should be aware of? Thanks,
-Walt
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Hi Marcelo,
I was just wondering if support for the Adaptec 79xx had been added to 2.4.21-pre? I have a server with the dual channel 7902 support on board, that so far appears to be working OK. It's using 2.4.20 with the driver patched in from Adaptec's site. I found an earlier mail from you stating that it would be added during the 2.4.20-pre cycle. Are there problems with the driver I should be aware of? Thanks,
-Walt
PS. Please CC me in any replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks.
I believe that he would prefer that it get tested in the ac tree 1st.
Alan seemed receptive to including it, but he's not doing much with the 2.4 ac kernel any more.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104106449418263&w=2
PS- All you really need to do to update the driver is delete drivers/scsi/aic7xxx, and replace it with the newer driver from Gibbs site. Recompile and you are done.
http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
aic79xx-linux-2.4-20021230-tar.gz
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I believe that he would prefer that it get tested in the ac tree 1st.
Alan seemed receptive to including it, but he's not doing much with the
2.4 ac kernel any more.
I've been working on merging a lot of stuff with Marcelo and cleaning up the other changes. 2.4.21pre-ac should be out today, and its a lot smaller than before as Marcelo as almost all the apic stuff, IDE updates etc. I've also dropped rmap out for now
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I've also dropped rmap out for now.
Hmm, what for?
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I've also dropped rmap out for now.
Hmm, what for?
15a wasnt working very well, the base VM isn't too bad now and its a _lot_ easier to do merging with Marcelo without rmap. The other related bits are seperated out but present (vm overcommit handling, fixed shmem, removepage callback)
Replying to Alan Cox:
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15a wasnt working very well, the base VM isn't too bad now and its
hmm, 15b? I have some
ftp://stingr.net/pub/l/rmap15b-for-2.4.20-ac2.gz
works for me here.
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a _lot_ easier to do merging with Marcelo without rmap. The other related bits are seperated out but present (vm overcommit handling, fixed shmem, removepage callback)
*sigh*
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Quoted 5 lines · Samuel Flory
I believe that he would prefer that it get tested in the ac tree 1st.
Alan seemed receptive to including it, but he's not doing much with the 2.4 ac kernel any more.
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I've been working on merging a lot of stuff with Marcelo and cleaning up the other changes. 2.4.21pre-ac should be out today, and its a lot smaller than before as Marcelo as almost all the apic stuff, IDE updates etc. I've also dropped rmap out for now
Sorry if that came out like you were slacking off. I know 2.5 and ide
is taking up most of your time.
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