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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:57:32 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        bmah@freebsd.org
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/aic7xxx aic7xxx.c aic7xxx.seq aic7xxx_freebsd.c aic7xxx_inline.h aic7xxx_pci.c 
Message-ID:  <200102212157.f1LLvWO45599@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:47:12 PST." <200102212147.f1LLlCo21978@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> 

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>Actually the problem I'm having for the release notes is that I don't
>understand enough of the amazingly detailed commit messages Justin
>writes. (Not blaming Justin, ignorance is my fault alone.)  If I could
>get a one- or two-sentence blurb, that'd be really wonderful.  
>(Otherwise the release notes will say something like "the ahc driver 
>was updated").

Hmm.

o We now attach to chips that are in "RAID Port" mode.  So, if you
  happen to have an ARO-XXX card in your system, we'll still allow
  you to use the on-MB chip as a SCSI controller.

o We now attach to all AAA-XXX cards.  The ARO product is a parity
  engine that connects to the SCSI controller shipped with your vendor's
  "Raid Port" enabled MB.  The AAA is the same except that it comes with
  its own SCSI controller.

o The driver now handles several chip errata it didn't handle in the past.
  Which MB/controller combinations this effects is hard to say.

o The driver is smart enough not to attach to aic7XXX chips that are
  controlled by an on-MB AAC RAID controller.  You'd only find this
  on certain Dell systems.

o Recent commits fixed some of the PCI ID handling that caused us to
  incorrectly attach to AAC controlled adapters, not attach to the
  second channel of certain aic7899 installations with unconventional
  subdevice Ids, etc.  These bugs never made it into any release.

o 2742T support was broken for some time.  I don't believe that any of these
  bugs made it into a release, but I could be wrong.

o Lots of performance improvements.

--
Justin

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