Re: Fresh APUS install - questions

[Michel <da...@re...>]

fh...@at... wrote:

> The other way is to look at modifying the sym53c8xx driver that,
> evidently, is used on the vast majority of Linux systems with the LSI SCSI
> cards.  The driver code I am playing around with is an old version of that
> driver.  This driver is actively developed/debugged and supports the most
> modern features of the latest chips.  It has also been ported to 2.3 and
> 2.4 kernels.  What one would have to do there is put in the Amiga
> interface code and tweak it for the differences between  the 8xx chips and
> the 7xx chips.   Actually I have been thinking about  working on that
> driver instead of the code I got.  I have no idea if the  code I got ever
> worked properly on any system, and I would prefer not  to have to debug
> code I don't have too.  Additionally, no one seems to  have or volunteer
> any information about the code I have.

These are very strong points IMO. There's no big point in working on old and
untested code.


Michel


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