On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:30:33PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > On wo, 2005-10-05 at 13:32 +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:31:08AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:14:32PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > SCSI_AMIGA7XX - no maintainer, broken forever > > > > > MVME16x_SCSI - no maintainer, broken forever > > > > > BVME6000_SCSI - same > > > > > > > > I don't think there's any point in deleting these. I'm not even sure > > > > why they're marked BROKEN. They share 99% of their code with drivers > > > > which are working. And I thought Richard Hirst was maintaining them ... > > > > > > They don't. All these use the broken and obsolete 53c7xx driver, not > > > James new 53c700 core. The driver should be easy to reimplement based > > > on the 53x700 for someone who has the hardware and cares about it. > > > > I never claimed to maintain the amiga stuff, but you are right that they > > all use the 53c7xx driver that I originally created. The sensible thing > > to do is to migrate those systems to use James 53c700 core, but it seems > > wise to poll the linux-m68k list before removing them. I don't do much > > with my VME hardware these days but I know there have been patches > > posted for the serial driver recently so maybe someone has the scsi > > working. > > I have at least the 53c7xx driver and the MVME16X driver working, the > Amiga and BVME stuff is untested (but does compile). Great :-) > I patched the 53c7xx core to get it to work again, but the patch is ugly > and uses some mid level SCSI driver internals, which it shouldn't. It's > currently only present in the m68k CVS repository. > > Are you sure it's that easy to use the new 53c700 core? These boards all > have 53c710 chips, and are quite some changes in the 53c7xx driver > compared to the 53c8xx driver it originated from. The 53c700 core code handles 53c710 as well, so it should be easy. Not that I've actually tried.. Richard - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
