Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Sep 1999 00:58:53 +0200 | From | Mathieu Arnold <> | Subject | scsi, round robin && mailbox ? |
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Hi
i've been reading the PCI-HOWTO (i know, quite old but...) and i stumbled on a little thing :
There is a driver in the 1.3.x kernels (available as a patch for the 1.2.13 kernel) written by someone associated with buslogic that fully supports the 946C and ALL of it's features including strict round robin, tagged queuing, multiple scatter/gather, multiple mailboxes, IRQ sharing, and yes, 15 devices on Fast/Wide. It is no longer necessary to use any ISA emulation with the driver (no DMA channel, no ISA address), and the driver is /fast/ and /stable/ (it's out of BETA and into full release).
and i do not see what round robin means in this context. and the same for multiple mailboxes, i edited drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c but it's not explained there, i also looked into Documentation/IO-mapping.txt but i still do not understand what a mailbox really is.
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