Re: [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Mon Apr 19 2021 - 12:02:01 EST


On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Khalid Aziz wrote:

> On 4/18/21 2:21 PM, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> >
> > Found the 3000763 document here:
> > https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer Science/0_Computer History/old-hardware/buslogic/3000763_PCI_EISA_Wide_SCSI_Tech_Ref_Dec94.pdf
> >
> > There's also 3002593 there:
> > https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer Science/0_Computer History/old-hardware/buslogic/
> >
>
> Thanks!!!

Ondrej: Thanks a lot indeed! These documents seem to have the essential
interface details all covered, except for Fast-20 SCSI adapters, which I
guess are a minor modification from the software's point of view.

Khalid: I have skimmed over these documents and I infer 24-bit addressing
can be verified with any MultiMaster adapter, including ones that do have
32-bit addressing implemented, by using the legacy Initialize Mailbox HBA
command. That could be used to stop Christoph's recent changes for older
adapter support removal and replace them with proper fixes for whatever
has become broken. Is that something you'd be willing as the driver's
maintainer to look into, or shall I?

Maciej