Re: linux-2.6.17
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:12:37AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > It is still there, I just built a fresh cross-gcc with bintuils 2.1.17,
> > gcc-4.1.1, and, after applying one patch, the build fails with getuser
> > problems. Can we have a patch for the CVS, please?
> I applied Al Viro's patches from january and now get his far:
> CC drivers/scsi/amiga7xx.o
> drivers/scsi/amiga7xx.c: In function 'amiga7xx_release':
> drivers/scsi/amiga7xx.c:122: warning: implicit declaration of function 'free_irq'
> SHIPPED drivers/scsi/53c7xx_d.h
> SHIPPED drivers/scsi/53c7xx_u.h
> CC drivers/scsi/53c7xx.o
> drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c: In function 'NCR53c7xx_queue_command':
> drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c:3601: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
> make[6]: *** [drivers/scsi/53c7xx.o] Error 1
Seems as if Kars' patches are missing here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2005/10/msg00086.html
and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2005/10/msg00087.html
Quote:
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| scsi-ncr53c7xx : NCR53c710 at memory 0xd0190040, io 0x0, irq 12
|
| This is the old ncr53c7xx driver, I believe it is broken on prepackaged
| Debian kernels because of a bogus virt_to_bus() call and/or the kernel
| being compiled with CONFIG_SINGLE_MEMORY_CHUNK=N. On early 2.4 kernels
| it did still work for me, but hasn't worked since 2.4.x (I don't
| remember x).
|
| I will try to rewrite the amiga7xx driver this evening to use the new
| 53c700 driver core. Should be pretty simple since it already works on
| MVE16x.
|
| It would be nice if you can test it, if it works I think we can safely
| get rid of the old ncr53c7xx driver.
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