aic79xx broken

[Richard Kleeman]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.17

On edgy the 2.6.17-2 kernel does not boot and reports error messages for the aic79xx driver similar to those seen earlier in the dapper development cycle (see fixed bug 14394). In particular the driver reports missing libraries with the generic name:

"spipopulate"

I am assuming that the cause of this problem is similar to that which occured in dapper after the latest aic79xx driver was introduced into the kernel tree.

[Richard Samson (richard)]

I get the same error with on aic7xxx (7892) with the latest linux-source-2.6.17 (2.6.17-3.4)

[Richard Kleeman (kleeman)]

Fix did not do the trick. Boot still freezes at the root file system stage i.e. the same stage. I cannot record the kernel messages because it was a hard lockup.

[Richard Kleeman (kleeman)]

Version 2.6.17-5 boots normally now.