Bug 64814

Summary:	please include the 3w-9xxx driver with 2.6.7
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Hoblitt <j_gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	3w-9xxx patch against vanilla linux 2.6.6

Description Joshua Hoblitt 2004-09-20 19:00:27 UTC

The driver for the 3Ware 9xxx series of RAID cards has been merged with Linux 2.6.8.  Unfortunately, there isn't yet a livecd that uses this kernel because of stability issues.  This is a serious boot strapping issue for those of us with systems that must use a 9xxx controller as a boot device.  I'd like to request that this driver get included with the Gentoo development sources.  I don't believe that the driver included with 2.6.8 can be easily back ported to 2.6.7 but the orignal patch from 3ware against 2.6.6 seems to apply OK to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r11.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Joshua Hoblitt 2004-09-20 19:04:18 UTC

Created attachment 40047 [details, diff]
3w-9xxx patch against vanilla linux 2.6.6

Comment 2 Joshua Hoblitt 2004-09-20 19:13:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51445 ***

Comment 3 Joshua Hoblitt 2004-09-20 19:18:07 UTC

The 3w-9xxx driver is not in gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r11 nor is it on the 2004.2 livecd.  Attempts to compile this driver against 2.6.7-r11 and then using it with the 2004.2 livecd have failed althought his technique worked with 2004.1

Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-20 19:26:35 UTC

Marking invalid, since I don't want to DUPE it again...  Check linked bug for more info...