----- Forwarded message from Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net> ----- From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:45:19 -0800 To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#264708: lspci -n Organization: Precision Air Balance, Inc. User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 On Monday 09 August 2004 08:31 pm, you wrote: > reassign 264708 discover1-data > thanks > > Greg Madden wrote: > > 0000:00:0a.0 0100: 1000:008f (rev 04) > > This is in the discover1 database as using the ncr53c8xx module, > which dos not exist for the 2.6 kernel. There's an alternate driver, > sym53c8xx, which supports some of the same cards, some newer ones, > and not some older ones supported by ncr53c8xx. I don't yet know if > Greg's system will work with this driver. I tried to install using RC-1, which fails as previously noted. so I tried a modprobe/insmod of SYM53C8XX_2. This module works on the 2.4.26 kernel but on the 2.6.7 kernel it fails to load with error of, and a paraphrase, symbols do not match, so the modules does not work. > > Then there's the version 2 of the driver, sym53c8xx_2. It's available > for 2.4, and is the only available driver for 2.6. > > (There's also the 53c7,8xx module, but it does not seem to be the > right one for this board. That module does not seem to be built as > part of the 2.4.26 or 2.6.7 i386 kernels.) > > Since discover1 cannot use different modules per kernel version, the > only way we can hope to get a module loaded for both kernels is to > use sym53c8xx_2. I don't know how good the sym53c8xx_2 module is for > the 2.4 kernel. It sounds from its description like it may support > everything supported by both the ncr53c8xx and sym53c8xx drivers. > > If it's not safe/possible to switch discover1-data to using > sym53c8xx_2 for this PCI id, we'll have to hack around the problem > some other way in d-i, possibly by linking/aliasing the 2.6 > sym53c8xx_2 module to ncr53c8xx or hardcoding something in hw-detect. > So discover1 maintainers, reassign it back to d-i if you can't fix > this bug. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: 907-276-0461 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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