Re: Problems building 2.4.10-ac11? Am I missing a ppc specific patches


Subject: Re: Problems building 2.4.10-ac11? Am I missing a ppc specific patches
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 13:36:49 MDT


Hi Dan,

> - I had to add Justin's tag_info kernel options to get aic7xxx to work
> at all. You might want to include aic7xxx_old as a module at least or
> include it by deafult in any installers since it is more stable that
> Justin's driver.
>
> - everything was painfully slow as if something was constantly
> interrupting the kernel perhaps this is another issue with the aic7xxx
> driver.

I removed the new aic7xxx driver of Justin and rebuilt with the old
aic7xxx_old.c driver and now everything is much much better.

No slowness. Seems to be stable so far.

Thanks for pointing me at your 2.4.10 kernel source!

Kevin



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