7899 & 7880

[Stephane Bunel]

Mark Tiramani a écrit :
> 
> >   I just receive a DELL 4400 with 7899 & 7880 chip controler. I'm
> > surprized to notice that the Linux Kernel 2.2.14 doesn't find
> > those controlers. After take a look in the driver source code,
> > I saw those chip are well handled. What append ?
> 
> It's not the aic7xxx driver that's causing the problems:
> We have just been through the same problem this week.
> 2.2.14 does indeed support the 789x, including the 7899 but:
> Dell are '...using two Northbridges which messed up PCI device detection
> and another problem that messed up the IO-APIC in the kernel.'
> I'm quoting from the person that got us fixed up with patches and a boot disk.
> Dell UK have not been very helpfull so we had to turn to US help. I am using
> Slackware 7 and I'm waiting for clearance to publish the patches or see if
> someone else can. I don't know what the game is but Dell UK said 'we have our
> own kernel...' which really stinks unless they make their patches open source
> (it's possible they are but we simply haven't been able to verify that and it's now
> a long holiday weekend here so everywhere's closed).
> 
> Neither patch is for aic7xxx.c which does its job as nicely as ever. They are for:
> include/linux/pci.h
> and
> arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c

 Thanks for you complete response.

  However when I boot with the 1.7.185 tomsrtbt distribution
(kernel 2.0.36)(http://www.toms.net/rb/mirrors.linux.html)
the controlers are well detected and I can mount the disks.

Stephane.


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