Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:54:05 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20pre7, aic7xxx-6.2.8: Panic: HOST_MSG_LOOP with invalid SCB 0 |
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > Justin, > > > > I guess is the second or third report of problems with the new aic7xxx :( > > This issue has already been resolved as a chipset issue requiring > I/O mapped register access to work around. The "old" aic7xxx driver > avoids these issues by issuing a register read after every register > write. This stops up your PCI bus with wasted cycles even if you have > a perfectly working chipset. > > So, how would you like me to resolve this. We can do the same thing > as Adaptec's windows drivers and just always use the slower, less > efficient I/O mapped method for accessing registers. This will "fix" > the problems people have with broken VIA and Intel chipsets. I can > make this a compile and run-time option, but should we default to > I/O mapped or memory mapped? > > Don't you just love broken PC hardware?
Its all fine, then: I thought the problems were caused by some bug in the driver itself.
Thanks for explaining me the issue clearly. :)
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