/Documentation/scsi/sym53c500_cs.txt
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- The sym53c500_cs driver originated as an add-on to David Hinds' pcmcia-cs
- package, and was written by Tom Corner (tcorner@via.at). A rewrite was
- long overdue, and the current version addresses the following concerns:
- (1) extensive kernel changes between 2.4 and 2.6.
- (2) deprecated PCMCIA support outside the kernel.
- All the USE_BIOS code has been ripped out. It was never used, and could
- not have worked anyway. The USE_DMA code is likewise gone. Many thanks
- to YOKOTA Hiroshi (nsp_cs driver) and David Hinds (qlogic_cs driver) for
- the code fragments I shamelessly adapted for this work. Thanks also to
- Christoph Hellwig for his patient tutelage while I stumbled about.
- The Symbios Logic 53c500 chip was used in the "newer" (circa 1997) version
- of the New Media Bus Toaster PCMCIA SCSI controller. Presumably there are
- other products using this chip, but I've never laid eyes (much less hands)
- on one.
- Through the years, there have been a number of downloads of the pcmcia-cs
- version of this driver, and I guess it worked for those users. It worked
- for Tom Corner, and it works for me. Your mileage will probably vary.
- --Bob Tracy (rct@frus.com)