Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:04:01 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G |
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:13:38PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > The main reason why the new driver "breaks" where the old one > doesn't is that the new driver does not perform an extra register > read to work-around chipsets that screw up memory mapped I/O.
Thanks for this clear description, Justin. I now understand why I've had problems in the past with earlier versions here, since I have other devices (eg dl2k) which can't do MMIO on my system.
Cheers, Willy
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