aic7xxx (was Re: 2.3.6 (mmap fails))

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:54:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, German Jose Gomez Garcia wrote:
> One more thing, the new 2.3.6 seems to incorporate the new aic7xxx
> 5.1.17 driver, I have no oportunity to test it but it's strange that
> during boot it reports that it downloads 374 instructions when with 5.1.10
> (and with all the previous versions since it works with my AIC-7890) it
> downloaded 409, is this normal??

In the announcement from Doug Ledford he says the new version of the
driver uses new sequencer code from FreeBSD driver, so presumeably this
would account for the difference.

Jeff

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