They said that that newest version of the driver that should be used
with 6xxx cards is .016. I haven't tried stepping up through the
revisions.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej@codemonkey.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:26 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Uetrecht, Daniel J.
> Subject: Re: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible
> with 6x00 series cards
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:10:54PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > According to 3Ware, the driver in the 2.4.x and (I assume)
> 2.5.x is no
> > longer compatible with the 6xxx series cards.
> > I don't know what we'll do with this situation when we
> move to 2.6, cause
> > right now, it looks like we are completely screwed. The old driver
> > obviously will not compile on 2.6 since the API's have changed.
>
> Any idea at which point the 2.5 driver stopped working ?
> It may not be that much work to bring that version up to date as
> a 3ware-old.c driver in a worse-case scenario.
>
> This would be huge code duplication however, and would be much
> better fixed by having the driver detect which card its running
> on, and 'do the right thing' wrt which firmware it needs.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs
>
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