[bug] OOPS/stunted boot, aic7xxx, 2.4.x

[David Ford]

'lo

I have a client machine that I can't get 2.4 to boot on.  It is an SMP 
motherboard with one CPU  , dual port aic7896/97 ultra2 onboard.

I'm slowing going backwards from 2.4.6-pre5 and am currently compiling 
2.4.3.  With the later kernels, the machine simply hangs, flat out does 
nothing instead of initializing the aic driver.  With the earlier 
kernels I get the below messages.  BTW, why the heck is the linux kernel 
relying on Berkely DB?  I find it rather bothersome that I have to go 
fetch and compile a userland library just to compile the aic driver.

More details to follow I'm sure.

David

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scsi:0:0:0:0 Attempting to queue an ABORT message
..Command already completed
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
..Attempting to queue an ABORT message
..Device is active, asserting aTN
Recovery code sleeping
Recovery code awake
..Timer expired
..returns 8195
..attepting to queue a TARET RESET message
..returns 8195
..recovery SCB completes
..attempting to queue an abort
ahc_intr : HOST_MSG_LOOP bad phase 0x0
..command aborted from QINFIFO
..returns 8194
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus 
reset: host  0 channel 0  id 0 lun 0

(partially repeats for each id, 1-15, on both  ports)