Messages in this thread | | | From | dledford@redhat ... | Date | Sun, 13 Jun 1999 02:04:39 -0400 | Subject | Re: aic7xxx (was Re: 2.3.6 (mmap fails)) |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, German Jose Gomez Garcia wrote: > > One more thing, the new 2.3.6 seems to incorporate the new aic7xxx > > 5.1.17 driver, I have no oportunity to test it but it's strange that > > during boot it reports that it downloads 374 instructions when with 5.1.10 > > (and with all the previous versions since it works with my AIC-7890) it > > downloaded 409, is this normal?? > > In the announcement from Doug Ledford he says the new version of the > driver uses new sequencer code from FreeBSD driver, so presumeably this > would account for the difference.
Not entirely accurate. The new version looked at new sequencer code from BSD, then I made my own sequencer. At this point, I have significantly departed from the FreeBSD sequencer and am now maintaining it myself along with the kernel code.
-- Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's.
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