On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:45:53PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > On wo, 2005-10-26 at 11:32 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > That's a nice machine, but it's somewhat boring that I can only run kernel > > 2.2.20 or 2.2.25 on it. > > > > I tried several prepackaged kernels from Debian, but all panic. I've put > > some dmesg outputs on the net: > > Good, someone with a system other than MVME16x using an NCR53C710 :-) > > >From your dmesg: > > scsi-ncr53c7xx : NCR53c710 at memory 0xd0190040, io 0x0, irq 12 > > This is the old ncr53c7xx driver, I believe it is broken on prepackaged > Debian kernels because of a bogus virt_to_bus() call and/or the kernel > being compiled with CONFIG_SINGLE_MEMORY_CHUNK=N. On early 2.4 kernels > it did still work for me, but hasn't worked since 2.4.x (I don't > remember x). > > I will try to rewrite the amiga7xx driver this evening to use the new > 53c700 driver core. Should be pretty simple since it already works on > MVE16x.
I'm doing the same for the BVME6000, as I have one of those to test on. I also have an MVME177 (basically an MVME167 but with 68060), so can test there too. > It would be nice if you can test it, if it works I think we can safely > get rid of the old ncr53c7xx driver. Yep, having one less NCR scsi driver in the tree should please a few people :) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
