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Re: aic7890 support

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brendan Miller)
Wed Jul 8 00:20:16 1998

Date: 	Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:58:49 -0700
From: Brendan Miller <brmiller@xenon.kudzu.gammalink.com>
To: Harvard Pan <akhran@usa.net>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: Brendan Miller <brmiller@wco.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980707115535.618B-100000@localhost>; from Harvard Pan on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 11:58:34AM -0700

On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 11:58:34AM -0700, Harvard Pan wrote:
> Hi there...
>    I just joined this mailing list. I'm not sure if this question has been
> asked before, but I just bought a Asus P2B-s motherboard that comes with
> an onboard Aic7890. I just read in the newsgroups that it's currently not
> being supported in the 2.0.34 kernel. Does anyone know if it's being
> supported in the developmental kernels? or if the driver has been
> written? Thanks in advance.
> 

Doug's working on it.  (Doug Ledford is the aic7xxx maintainer.)  He's 
close, but we should all refrain from bothering him, and think happy
thoughts about Linux, the aic7xxx, and Doug's work.  Also, it doesn't
look like he's sleeping much, so we should sleep a little extra for
him. 

You can follow his progress at 

   ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/7890-Status


Brendan Miller

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