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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx b/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx index ccf31d453..edc8f395c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx +++ b/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx @@ -1,3 +1,75 @@ +Sun May 11 22:30 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 2.1b + - Cosmetic changes. + - Some heavy testings under pre-linux-2.1.37-6 + +Sun May 4 22:30 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 2.1a + - PFEN wrongly used for PREFETCH feature bit testing. + Changed to _F_PFEN. + - 2 SCR_COPY that need NO FLUSH bit to be removed had been missed + in tp->getscr[] script (loads SXFER and SCNTL3 on reselection). + +Sat May 3 22:30 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 2.1 + - Use the NO FLUSH option for MOVE MEMORY (COPY) each time it is + possible. More than 100 COPY with NO FLUSH and 6 with FLUSH for + my configuration (max queued command / device = 8). + This option bit is removed from the script instance for chips + that donnot support prefetching. + - Rewrite the ncr_exception() routine more simple (I think) and + remove useless code. + - Change the data_in and data_out script management. + Use the bottom part of these scripts instead of the beginning. + That avoids to zero the scatter/gather array when a command is + queued (1k) and to deal with some weird IID on MOVE 0 bytes when + a target wants to transfer more bytes than expected. + - Misc. improvements in the init code. + - Remove IOMAPPED/MMIO automatic switching option. + Was useless and reported not reliable. + - Fix a double read of DSTAT and remove DFE testing in the + Phase mismatch service routine. + - Etc... + +Fri Apr 26 20:00 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 2.0a + - Add support if the Diamond FirePort 40 (SYM53C875J chip) + +Mon Apr 22 22:00 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 2.0 + - incorporate __initdata and __initfunc directives in order to + allow 'init' to free unused memory after driver initialisations. + Patch sent by Roberto Fichera. + - rewrite the init code of the driver. Now a feature descriptor + is used for each real chip types. The code is a lot more clean, + since the driver uses device and revision ids only in the + detection procedure. + - add 'pcifix' boot command line. This command allows to fix up PCI + config space for new chips which support features based on the + cache line size and 'write and invalidate'. + - incorporate in the driver, the code used for error recovery + testing. This code is normally not compiled; have to define + SCSI_NCR_DEBUG_ERROR_RECOVERY in order to compile it. + - take into account actual SCSI bus mode for 53C895 LVD/SE controller. + In single ended mode only fast20 is supported. + (Just to not be late since such controllers are not yet available) + + +Sat Apr 20 21:00 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 1.18f + - fix an old bug included in the initial port (version 0.0). + The driver allocated 10 bytes of static data and uses 12 bytes. + No danger, since data are generally aligned on 4 bytes boundary + and so byte 10 and 11 are free (I hope ...) + +Wed Apr 16 12:00 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * revision 1.18e + - reset all when an unexpected data cycle is detected while + disconnecting. + - make changes to abort() ans reset() functions according to + Leonard's documentation. + - small fix in some message for hard errors. + Sat Apr 5 13:00 1997 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) * revision 1.18d - Probe NCR pci device ids in reverse order if asked by user from |