Re: aic7xxx driver that does not need db library?

Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org)
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:51:03 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote:

>
> Currently, building Justin Gibbs's otherwise excellent
> aic7xxx driver requires the Berkeley DB library, because the
> aic7xxx assembler that is used in the build process uses db
> basically just to implement associative arrays in memory.

You don't need berk db if you don't check "rebuild firmware" or whatever
the config option is. I don't check it, and I never have problems. I
believe it exists only as a convenience for the developers.

-jwb

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