Subject: Re: Problem with aic7899
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/13/2003 09:23:40
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:29:31AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>> More likely, NetBSD is still using a very ancient port of the aic7xxx
>> driver.
> 
> I've actually done a port your newer driver (taken from FreeBSD-current
> at the end of last year), keeping the differences to a minimum. I wrote
> a NetBSD shim, much like the one already present for FreeBSD and Linux.
> 
> It works fine on one system, but fails on another one, in a way I don't
> quite understand, and which doesn't seem to be related to NetBSD-specific
> code. However, since it does work in FreeBSD, something specific to NetBSD
> must obviously be the cause.

Can you be more specific about the nature of the failure?  Are there any
driver diagnostics produced during the failure?

--
Justin