Bug in aic7xxx.c (Linux 2.1.51)

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at plutotech.com
Tue Sep 2 07:27:47 PDT 1997


>Hello,
>  I am reporting a bug in refrence to the aic7xxx driver contained in Linux
>2.1.51.
>Compile Failuere.
>  Platform :  Axp
>  Kernel:     2.1.51
>
>  Routine aic_outsb
>  Problem:
>  The routine aic_outsb contains refrences to (registers ?) %esi, %ecx, %eax.

aic_outsb is only used for downloading the microcode (i.e. a non speed critical
task).  You should be able to safely replace it with a simple for loop that
calls aic_outb.

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