Re: BlizzardPPC SCSI support!

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:18:54PM +0100, Rados?aw Kujawa wrote:
>
>> I though about merging similar drivers for 53C710-based controllers
>> into one. But I'm hesitant to touch a driver I can't test. That's why
>  I created a new driver. Anyone on this list owns Warp Engine? A4091?
>
> but why? most of the driver *is* in two or three shared files, and
> having the frontend for each card in a different file makes it possible
> to remove it from configuration, should problems appear, etc., by
> adding a simple "no bppcsc* at zbus0" ... to the kernel config file.
>
> The actual code is only a couple of lines, isn't it? And what's
> different is interupt setup, hardware initialization (e.g. ctest7) and
> having them seperate helps with clarity and debugging.

Ok, that's what we wanted to know. I was anxious to bloat the generic kernel
even more, which is always an issue on Amigas.

So the current driver only needs a check for the correct serial number, to
make sure an scsi host is present, and it can be committed just in time for
6.0. :)

-- 
Frank Wille