Messages in this thread |  | | From | george h byrkit <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.1.0 _development_ kernel released.. | Date | Tue, 01 Oct 1996 10:05:25 -0400 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, I released the final 2.1.0 (both as full source and as patches against > 2.0.21), and as always I'm interested in any comments on it. > > NOTE! The driver situation has improved, but is by no means perfect. Most > notably, there is no working aic7xx0 driver (aha2940 based cards) available > right now. Quite frankly, I can't fix this on my own, so I would really be > very grateful if somebody who has the hardware and the inclination would look > into it. > > (I looked into it just enough to see that it's ugly: the scatter-gather lists > used by the SCSI code use virtual addresses, and the aic7xx0 controller code > uses those scatter-gather lists directly. The high-level SCSI code would > either have to use bus addresses instead of virtual addresses, or the aic7xx0 > driver should do the translation either on the CPU or in the aic7xx0 > assembly). > > Most other drivers would seem to work, although some of them (like the xd > driver) haven't been tested. > > Other than the virtual kernel address setup changes on x86, the 2.1.0 release > also changes the VFS interface (lseek/read/write get longer types). There are > also quite a lot of m68k-specific changes (but I'm waiting with the generic > m68k changes until the driver situation has calmed down a bit). There is also > a tentative patch for the pty problems people have reported (that will be fed > back to the 2.0.x tree too, but you can test it out in the 2.1.x series > first) > > Linus
OK, I'll bite.
I've got the hardware (AHA-2940U Rev B), the motivation (won't boot 2.1.0), and the inclination (i'm a hacker...). Can you email me any other clues before I embark on this 'glorious adventure'?
Regards, George Byrkit
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