Subject: Re: kern/13659 (two possibly related ahc panics on aic7899 based system)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/29/2006 20:20:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/13659; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, woods@planix.com
Subject: Re: kern/13659 (two possibly related ahc panics on aic7899 based system)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:13:02 -0800 (PST)
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Reply-To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:30:02 +0000 (UTC)
The following reply was made to PR kern/13659; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: elad@netbsd.org
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:27:07 -0400
At Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:27:43 +0000 (UTC),
elad@netbsd.org wrote:
>=20
> Synopsis: two possibly related ahc panics on aic7899 based system
>=20
> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
> State-Changed-By: elad@netbsd.org
> State-Changed-When: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:27:42 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> fixed since 1.6, netbsd 1.5 is eol'd
Actually it's not fixed _in_ 1.6 either. The pullups to the driver were
never done.
Since 1.6 is also eol'd, it will never be fixed there. If you
can show that the problems exist in 2.x or later, then the PR can be
re-opened.
Sadly since no subsequent update of this driver has been done from the
FreeBSD original since 2003/04/19, there are stil many rather serious
bugs and important deficiencies in the ahc(4) driver.
Such as?