[6336] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: actual ncr53c8xx driver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Thu Apr 15 18:26:56 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:58:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Drew Eckhardt <drew@Poohsticks.Org>
cc: "Raju K. V." <rajukv@wipinfo.soft.net>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199904141738.LAA01040@chopper.poohsticks.org>
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Drew Eckhardt wrote:
> In message <Pine.SV4.3.93.990414112435.28708A-100000@tagore>, rajukv@wipinfo.so
> ft.net writes:
> >hi,
> >
> >In the linux sorce tree I find ncr53c7,8xx.c and ncr53cxx.c under the
> >drivers/scsi directory. Which of this is the actual driver for ncr53cxx
> >chips?
>
> They both are.
>
> In 1993, I wrote ncr53c7,8xx.
>
> Some time later, Gerard Roudier ported the BSD driver, and tracked their
> changes (support for new chips, etc). With that in place, redundancy
As far as I can tell I am only tracking Linux changes since 1995.
The support for new chips in the current FreeBSD driver, basically Ultra
SCSI, Ultra2 SCSI, on-chip RAM features have been first added in the Linux
ncr53c8xx driver (initialy ported for the FreeBSD ncr driver) and I have
ported these changes to the FreeBSD driver about 2 years ago. The
sym53c8xx driver I started in August 1998 and that supports the features
of the 896 is planned to be ported to BSD. It hasn't been done yet due to
lack of time.
> discouraged me from finishing the tagged queing, wide, and other
> changes I was workin on at the time or to add the PCI IDs for new chips.
Hmmm ... ??
Gérard.
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