Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751844AbWLNIfS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:35:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751839AbWLNIfR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:35:17 -0500 Received: from jaguar.mkp.net ([192.139.46.146]:48857 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751833AbWLNIew (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:34:52 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1415 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:34:52 EST To: Rolf Eike Beer Cc: Greg.Chandler@wellsfargo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Interphase Tachyon drivers missing. From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: mkp.net References: <200612140827.31858.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:11:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200612140827.31858.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> (Rolf Eike Beer's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:27:26 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1849 Lines: 41 >>>>> "Eike" == Rolf Eike Beer writes: Eike> Am Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2006 17:51 schrieb Eike> Greg.Chandler@wellsfargo.com: >> I'm not sure about the driver being cpqfc, I know in 2.6.0 & 1 the >> driver was definitely iphase.c/h/o I do know the chipset was used >> by almost everyone, Compaq/HP/DEC and Interphase's namebrand cards. >> >> I also know that the driver is still working in 2.4.33 my slackware >> 11 default kernel picked up the card, which suprised me to say the >> least... I won't have time to spend a weekend on it until about >> christmas. {or probably christmas day is more likely} Even then I >> can't make any kind of promise that I can do anything useful about >> it... Eike> Ok, than we're likely talking about different things. Maybe just Eike> another driver for that chipset. If I'll ever find some time Eike> I'll have a look on this one too. The ip5526 driver was removed way back due to lack of interest. It only drove a limited set of cards from one vendor. The interphase cards used a "real" Tachyon (HPFC-5000) chip. The controllers we usually discuss in the context of cpqfc have TachLite (HPFC-51xx and later). Tachyon is a really old chip and it's not completely compatible with TachLite from a programming perspective. It also doesn't have contemporary features like - cough - PCI-support. The GSC/EISA/PCI/whatever glue chip was vendor-specific. I'm sure the ip5526 driver could be revived -- it's not very big. But I doubt there are many cards out there that haven't been scrapped. -- Martin K. Petersen http://mkp.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/