Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade
Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:59:22PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > > It's a Symbos 53C1010, which appears to be more or less compatible with the
> > > > 53C8xx chips used in the earlier tekram cards. At least, there're references
> > > > to them in the 2.4 series kernels' 53c8xx driver sources, so I assume they
> > > > work, but there's no mention of them in my copy of the 2.2.13 sources I have
> > > > here, so you may require a 2.4 kernel to use this card. You should check
> > > > the 2.2.19 sources.
> >
> > > OK, is there anyone building or has a set of 2.4 kernel disks?
> >
> > I'm confused. The potato boot floppies includes CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX
> > in both the vanilla set and the compact set.
>
> There are quite a few specific references to 53c1010 in the 2.4.x
> sym53c8xx.c driver; I don't know whether those changes are in 2.2.19.
Well, I don't see the point in telling the user it doesn't work in
2.2.19 unless you can say that for sure...
In essence, it's a hardware/kernel issue, and needs to be addressed at
that level.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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