AIC7895 and Linux

[Robert G. Brown]

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:

> Ger wrote:
> 
> > Is there an updated image needed for booting with the AIC7895, and if
> > so, where can it be obtained?
> 
> You need an image based on at least my aic7xxx-5.0.0 patch in order to use a
> 7895 controller.  Where you can get a boot disk for slackware is a good
> question.  If you find one, email it to me and I'll add it to my archives at
> ftp.dialnet.net where I already have Redhat-4.2, SuSE-5.1, and Debian boot
> disks using varying versions of the aic7xxx patches I have.

Ger,

I have a slackware boot disk that uses 2.0.33 with something like
aic7xxx-5.0.5 (or 7, can't remember) on it that works fine.  However, it
has NO network support -- it assumes that network support will be loaded
as a module.  If you have any linux system up on which to work, it is
pretty trivial to get kernel sources (e.g. 2.0.33), patch in Doug's
aic7xxx upgrade to 5.0.X, make a kernel zImage (or bzImage) to your
specifications, and turn it into a slackware boot disk with the scripts
in slackware/kernels.  Also, you don't really need a "slackware" boot
image to boot slackware -- you just need a zImage with ramdisk and
minix support (plus whatever you like).  Most of what the slackware boot
disk scripts do is install lilo and sundry message files on the floppy
in addition to the boot image itself, but things work just fine without
them.

If you need an bootable image and cannot make one yourself, let me know
and I'll cut one for you and put it up on the web, but I have a lot to
do and you should really try it on your own for the practice if you do
have access to a linux system.

    rgb


Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu




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