Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:12:25 -0300 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" <lioux@uol.com.br> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, 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: <20010221221225.A47703@Fedaykin.here> In-Reply-To: <200102212157.f1LLvWO45599@aslan.scsiguy.com>; from gibbs@scsiguy.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:57:10PM -0700 References: <200102212147.f1LLlCo21978@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <200102212157.f1LLvWO45599@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:57:10PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > 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. Perhaps a (null) commit would be in order? Or, is this too much? :) Just checking, I don't know. I am still getting used to FreeBSD committing etiquette. Regards, -- Mario S F Ferreira - UnB - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." lioux at ( freebsd dot org | linf dot unb dot br ) flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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