Re: r3297 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian: . patches patches/series

[Sven Luther]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:37:08AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:32:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
  Christoph, why in hell do you CC me on costa.debian.org and not use my
  @debian.org adress :)
 
 I just did an reply to the commit mail..

Yeah, guessed such, maybe alioth/svn/whatever should be fixed to be more smart
about this.

  Because i am trying to build kernels that work for ppc64 boxes, as nobody is
  helping me out on this, i do what i can. Notice that this is stuff worked on
  by Cajus, who apparently managed to get some IBM boxes donated to the
  augsbourg university on behalf of the debian project, Altough i guess nobody
  else knew about it, and i just recently found out about that.
  
  Actually i should have added it to a a branch or something though.
  
  That said, it is just a driver, if you don't enable it, you will never see 
  it :)
  And i am perfectly happy to drop it as not needed once i have a successfull
  report on logical partitioned working, which is currently failing, as 
  reported
  by David Gaya, and his gentoo kernel worked. See the ppc64 mailing lists for
  that.
  
+  * Added patch for IBM eServer i/pSeries Virtual SCSI Target Driver 
from 
+Dave Boutcher [EMAIL PROTECTED], needed for ppc64 boxes with 
virtual
+partitions, Thanks to Cajus Pollmeier for providing it.
+(Sven Luther)
   
   And no, it's totally not needed for these systems to work.
  
  Ok, fine, what should be used then instead ? Can you provide your
  enlightnement on what is needed here, and maybe comment on the above 
  mentioned
  failure ? The link seems to be :
  

  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-ppc64-devel/2005-June/000123.html
 
 that mail is to 90% a big base64 blob, people are too stupid to
 configure their mailers these days :P

Hehe, indeed. Well, i forwarded you the more usefull mail, altough i don't
remember where the gentoo .config file is, i can investigate this lter if
needed, unless you have an insight.

BTW, we should have access to logical partitions at the augsbour uni now, so
this could be tested there, if you feel like this, i will not be able to in
the next 2 weeks.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: r3297 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian: . patches patches/series

[Harald Görl]

Christoph Hellwig schrieb:

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:23:49AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:

+  * Added patch for IBM eServer i/pSeries Virtual SCSI Target Driver from 

i' curious to know what is needed?


As the code and explanation says it's needed for vio targets, aka if you
want to run multiple OS instances on a single system, and you absolutely
want to run vio on some of the instances and run the server under debian
linux (by default it runs AIX or OS/400), which lacks the infrastructure
for this server anyway.


Hi Christoph, *.
I'm not really sure if i did understand that correctly. Do you think 
that the virtual i/o server for pSeries (i.e. IBM OpenPower) MUST run 
under AIX? That's not true.


We have the virtual i/o server and the LPARs (virtual partitions) on 
OpenPower 720 both running under Debian. No need for any other (curious) 
operating system/kernel!


And if the patch is neccessary for the virtual i/o server (driver: 
ibmvscsis), then the patch is neccessary for us.


Harald


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