Hi,
I am about to take some vacations and will be out of email contact for
more than 2 weeks. I will be back on August the 14th.
Since linux-2.2.17 may go out of the door during this period, I have made
available my latest driver sources at the usual location:
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/roudier/drivers/linux/stable/
sym-1.7.1-ncr-3.4.1.tar.gz
The tarball contains full driver sources to allow using the driver under
various 2.2.X, 2.3.X, pre-2.4.0 and future 2.4.X kernels.
This new versions only address a couple of fixes for PPC against
sym-1.7.0-ncr-3.4.0 also available from the same location.
As I wrote 2 weeks ago (see below), it seems to me important this new
driver versions to be accepted for next kernel 2.2.18, since sym-1.7.X
provides support for the SYM53C1010 U160 PCI-SCSI controller and numerous
userS may (will) need to install a distribution using such controller.
It is obviously possible for a good Linux hacker to install any distro
using a SYM53C1010 given the new driver sources, and I plan to update to
RedHat 6.latest when I will be back from vacations, but end-user will
generally not be able to do so. I obviously expect some not desirable
noise here.
For the driver to be accepted for next stable kernel, it must be trusted
by kernel maintainers, not only for the SYM53C1010, but also for all
Symbios chips, and this can only happen if I can arg about the driver
having been heavily tested.
G�rard.
PS:
Btw, FreeBSD supports the C1010 since 4.0R March 8, but its development
model is very different from the Linux one and this may explain that. No
critics against 'Super' Alan here. But I donnot understand why Linux
stable hasn't been moved under the usual CVS based development model,
given that Linus seems to have given maintainance of linux-stable to the
community. Hmmm..., if I weren't flame-immune for these 2 next weeks, I
wouldn't have written that. ;-)
--
Below, my previous posting about lack of SYM53C1010 support in linux
stable:
--
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, G�rard Roudier wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, G�rard Roudier wrote:
>
> > I just sent Alan a patch against pre-2.2.17-10 that upgrades sym53c8xx
> > and ncr53c8xx drivers to their latest respective assumed stable version.
>
> The patch has been refused for the reason it was too large.
> But it has been accepted as a candidate for 2.2.18.
>
> > The patch is available from the following location:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/roudier/drivers/linux/stable/
> > sym-1.7.0-ncr-3.4.0-for-pre-2.2.17-10.patch.gz
>
> A tarball that contains full drivers files is also available from
> the same location and directory:
>
> sym-1.7.0-ncr-3.4.0.tar.gz
>
> I have added the following file to the tar file:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> INSTALL.txt <<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>
> Linux-stable 2.2.X for X <= 17 has an old sym53c8xx driver version
> that does not support the SYM53C1010 Ultra-160 PCI SCSI chip.
> Recent sym53c8xx drivers since version 1.6b support the SYM53C1010
> PCI SCSI controllers.
>
> I have proposed sym-1.7.0/ncr-3.4.0 for inclusion in pre-2.2.17-10,
> but this has been refused. The patch against 2.2.17 is large and
> only small patches are accepted at the time of 2.2.17-10. I have
> been said that the reason is that 2.2.17 is expected to be
> `rock solid' and thus large patches are not accepted.
>
> Without an updated driver, installation of linux-2.2.17 on disks
> connected to SYM53C1010 will end up with the system staying `rock
> solid' on the installation CD/ROM. :-)
> I hope that sym-1.7.0 will allow linux-2.2.17 to run `rock solid' as
> user expect. But, unfortunately, I haven't resource for providing all
> installation diskette images for all existing distributions. And since
> the only fair attitude can only be to provide all, I will not provide
> any, but allow Linux packagers to provide additionnal installation
> material for their product to install with a SYM53C1010.
> Thus this tarball that contains updated sym/ncr drivers.
> (Patches containing sym-1.6b are also available from LSI ftp site and
> these driver version also supports the SYM53C1010).
>
> I also plan to provide a clean patch against linux-2.2.17 when this
> kernel version will be available (obviously if I am not in vacation
> when this will occur).
>
> The updated driver bundle has been accepted as a candidate for linux-2.2.18.
> But if linux-2.4 gets stable enough and linux-2.2.17 will be `rock solid'
> as expected, it may be guessable that linux-2.2.18 will get low priority.
>
> Anyway, recent drivers will have to be quite reliable for linux-2.2.18
> using any SYM53C8XX chip type. So, trying these drivers and reporting
> problems if any can help a lot.
>
> Installing sym-1.7.0/ncr-3.4.0:
> -----------------------------
> As result of untaring sym-1.7.0-ncr-1.4.0.tar.gz, the following files
> should have been created in the directory `sym-1.7.0-ncr-3.4.0):
>
> INSTALL.txt (this file)
> ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx
> ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
> README.ncr53c8xx
> ncr53c8xx.c
> ncr53c8xx.h
> sym53c8xx.c
> sym53c8xx.h
> sym53c8xx_comm.h
> sym53c8xx_defs.h
>
> The driver should work on linux-2.2.X for X >= 14, linux-2.3.X for X >= 51.
> It should also work on earliest linux-2.4.X (X low enough).
>
> Installation of the drivers proceeds as follows:
>
> 1) Copy (or move) all drivers files to the drivers/scsi subdirectory
> of your linux kernel tree. You may also backup previous driver files
> if you want to be able to revert the driver update.
> Usually, the directory to copy the file is:
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi
>
> 2) Reconfigure your kernel options if needed, using `make menuconfig',
> for example.
>
> 3) Build and install the new kernel and/or driver modules depending on
> the drivers having been configured as module or statically linked.
>
>
> Gerard.
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