a discussion going on about removing this code from the burden of the
GPL, but it won't happen before Beta, and this code should be tested
before release.
Supports 27/2842 class adaptec cards and is almost capable of supporting
aic7870 based adapters (294X series cards). It does not support Wide
controllers or the second channel on Twin boards although I have work in
progress on getting both channels and running.
I have also added a few performance improvements to this version that give
us approximately a 25% boost over the original driver. These patches have
been submitted to the author.
Obtained from: Linux aic7770 driver (John Aycock - aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
of the 1.1.5 driver, a recent version of the NetBSD driver, Andres'
transmission start threshold code, and all other relavent changes to the driver
since it was brought into 2.0. The multicast support from NetBSD has not be
folded in yet. I've tested it under high loads for two weeks and it is now
robust enough to be included in the GENERIC kernel.
Reviewed by: gibbs
Submitted by: vega@sophia.inria.fr (Andres Vega Garcia)
cosmetique) because we already have right things there or his changes
are incorrect.
Fix mcd_subchan to return position, inspired by idea from
bugress@s069.infonet.net, but different implementation.
Here is the improved probe for the mse (Bus Mouse) device driver. I
have been running with this under 1.1.5.1 as well as 2.0 without a hitch for
quite a while.
Submitted by: lars
floppies now. I'm not sure why, but things hang when it gets to the
`changing root to fd0c' part. Without your latest commit, everything works
fine. Maybe you can figure out what you broke after ALPHA! :)
errors at a lower ipl. clist starvation problems can cause hundreds of
tty buffer overflows per second and logging them all amplified the
problems. This problem was less serious in 1.1.5.
Avoid a race in the check for starting a new block of output. com_events
was sometimes messed up and siopoll() looped endlessly. This bug was
introduced in 2.0.
Clean up previous 2 commits. Rename sio_registerdev() to sioregisterdev()
to match the (bad) surrounding naming conventions. There should be a
generic_registerdev().
. avoid resetting the FDC every time the last motor is going off;
instead, give it a 60-second period for possible later reactivation.
This prevents us from needing to recalibrate the FDC too often,
but still allows for an ``automagic error recovery', just in case the
controller is absolutely stuck. (Simply wait for 60 seconds, and
try it again.)
. made the floppy head settle time after a seek a constant
that might be overridden by a config option. (Well, actually the
divisor of the settle time). Pepople often reported problems with
their floppies, so i need a simply mechanism that allows them
to play with that value. (I personally cannot find any problem
on *my* drives.)
. implement the FD_DEBUG ioctl command, in case the driver
is compiled with DEBUG turned on.
. removed a bogus parameter from a printf; the remaining warnings
from gcc -Wall seem to be warnings about the %b format gcc cannot
understand
. rearrange Garett's code to fit better in the existing structure
of #define/type/function ordering.
. make everything fit into 79 columns again.
in the far pointers are multiples of 4K (as is normal when the video
BIOS is at seg 0xc000). Disallow mode switching if the pointer is bad.
Use a new pa_to_va() macro for all BIOS and video addresses in syscons.
and all SCSI devices (except that it's not done quite the way I want). New
information added includes:
- A text description of the device
- A ``state''---unknown, unconfigured, idle, or busy
- A generic parent device (with support in the m.i. code)
- An interrupt mask type field (which will hopefully go away) so that
. ``doconfig'' can be written
This requires a new version of the `lsdev' program as well (next commit).
so i hope i've finally removed all the occasions where the driver
got stuck when there's no floppy in the drive.
Also attemmpting to omit the error mesage for ``recalib failed''
for the first time, since people tend to be confused about this.
else has been probed. This feature could go away again, if we can curb the
problem another way.
if_ed.c, syscons.c: Set the above flag. ed# because it needs it, syscons
because it looks stupid to "detect" the display you have already filled up
with text :-)
bt742a.c: Check bt_cmd() return-val during probe, thus failing on adaptec's.
Also silenced various printf's during the probe.
isa.c: Probe devices with the above flag set before the rest. Reduce the
number of "conflict" messages per device to one.
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Please test the GENERIC-kernel now, if nobody can make it fail, GENERICAH
and GENERICBT has a finite and short life-expectancy...
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