* David Koski david@kosmosisland.com [20070625 17:15]:
On Monday 25 June 2007 01:58, Michael Prokop wrote:
- David Koski david@kosmosisland.com [20070625 06:15]:
[adp94xx kernel module]
IIRC adp94xx has been integrated as aic94xx in mainline 2.6.19.
% uname -a Linux funkenzutzler 2.6.20-grml #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 22 13:28:02 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux % modinfo aic94xx | grep description description: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver
Please correct me if I'm wrong (I don't own an Adaptec SAS/SATA controller).
I don't believe the aic94xx driver is the same as adp94xx, which has proprietary code. Given Debian's strict policies, I would be surprised if they adopted adp94xx code. I tried to install a modified Debian stable (2.6.18 kernel + aic94xx) install without success. That when it was indicated to me that the adp94xx is needed. RedHat reportedly comes with adp94xx drivers, which are required for my specific Adaptec chip. I was hoping grml had them too, as indicated in the README.
Well, did you try grml 1.0 with aic94xx? A short look at the code of adp94xx indicates that it seems to be quite the same as current aic94xx. JFTR: Debian's policies has nothing to do with adp94xx/aic94xx itself - especially as grml's kernel has (basically) nothing to do with Debian's one. ;) The aic94xx code went in mainline (as in kernel.org) and not just in Debian's kernel.
Regarding adp94xx there have been several problems with different kernel versions. Check out Jimmy's weblog on that issue:
http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=71
I'll try to check out with Jimmy what's current state of adp94xx/ aic94xx. My current state of information is that aic94xx is what you use with >=2.6.19 if you used adp94xx before.
regards, -mika-