Re: SCSI Tape corruption - update

2001-07-20 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > New findings: > > - The problem doesn't happen with kernels <= 2.2.17. It does happen with all > > kernels starting with 2.2.18-pre1. > > - The only related stuff that changed in 2.2.18-pr

Re: SCSI Tape corruption - update

2001-07-08 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > In the mean time I down/upgraded to 2.2.17 on my PPC box (CHRP LongTrail, > > > Sym53c875, HP C5136A DDS1) and I can confirm that the problem d

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

2001-06-28 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tom Gall wrote: > > Well you have device drivers like the symbios scsi driver for instance that > > tries to determine if it's seen a card before. It does this by looking at the > > bus,dev etc numbers... It's quite reasonable for two different scsi ca

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Mike Black wrote: > This is a very common misconception -- I worked a contract many years ago > where I actually had to quote the author of TCP to convince a banking > company I was working with that TCP is not a guaranteed protocol. > Guaranteed delivery at layer 5 - yes -

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Adrian Cox wrote: > Marc Lehmann wrote: > > > > Aren't PCI delayed transaction supposed to be handled by the pci master > > (e.g. my northbridge), not by the (software) driver for my pdc(?) I would > > also be surprised if my pdc actually used that feature, not to speak of

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-04 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Tim Hockin wrote: > All, > > Attached is a patch for sym53c8xx.c to handle the error timer better, and > be more proper for SMP. The changes are very simple, and have been beaten > on by us. Please let me know if there are any problems accepting this > patch for general

Re: SCSI-CD-Writer don't show up

2001-06-04 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > #Include > > > > I have 3 SCSI-CD-Writers. "Strange" is that the boot-process only finds > the first one (1 0 5 0), the other two i have to add with > > echo "scsi add-single-device 2 0 4 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi > echo "scsi add-single-devi

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tim Hockin wrote: > > spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > > +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > > #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(&sym53c8xx_lock, >flags) > > #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRI

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-20 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:13AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I was only talking about when you get the "pci_map_sg failed" because > > you have not 3 but 300 scsi disks connected to your system and you are > > writing to all them at the sam

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > > which is a text version of the paper I mentioned before. The basic > > message of the paper is that it really doesn't help much to have things > > like ECC unless you can be sure that 100% of the rest of your sy

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > > > I've learned it the hard way, I have two types : Compaq DL360 (rev 5) and a > > > Tyan S2510 (rev 6). On the compaq machine I constantly get data corruption on > >

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > Hi all, > > I just compiled 2.4.4 and are running it on a Serverworks LE motherboard. > Whenever I try to add a write-combining region, it gets rejected. I took a peek > in the arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c and found that this is just as expected with >

Re: sym53c875 error

2001-04-24 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Hamilton, Eamonn wrote: > Hi Folks. > > Under all of the kernels I have access to try ( 2.2.19, 2.4.X & 2.4.X-ac* ), > when I try and write an image in XA2 format to my SCSI writer ( Yamaha > CDR-400t ), I get a DMA overrun. When I try with a kernel patched with the > beta

Re: scanner problem

2001-04-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > when trying to scan with xsane and "agfa snapscan 1236s", i get the > following message: > > Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0, type 6 > sym53c895-0-<5,*>: target did not report SYNC. This message is just a warni

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update

2001-04-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Still experimenting with my SDT-9000... tried connecting it to another > controller > (2940AU in place of 2904, sorry but I've only Adaptec stuff :). Same > problem. > Tried with another tape (even with an old DDS-2 tape). Same. Even tried > anothe

Re: aic7xxx and 2.4.3 failures - fix, it is interrupt routing

2001-04-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jim Studt wrote: > G*rard Roudier insightfully opined.. > > Looks like an IRQ problem to me. > > I mean the kernel wants to change IRQ routing and just do the wrong job. > > Give the man a prize! > > After failing to work with 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.3, and 2.4.3-ac3 I > enabl

Re: aic7xxx and 2.4.3 failures

2001-04-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
Looks like an IRQ problem to me. I mean the kernel wants to change IRQ routing and just do the wrong job. Ingo reported me a similar problem a couple of week ago that made failed the sym53c8xx driver. Looks very similar to this one with the kernel PCI code wanting to assign IRQ 11 to almost ever

Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport)

2001-04-07 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:42:35PM +0200, Gunther Mayer wrote: > > > Please apply this little patch instead of wasting time by > > finger-pointing and arguing. > > This patch would make me happy. > > It would allow support for new multi-IO cards to gene

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-07 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Michael Reinelt wrote: > Tim Waugh wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:33:25PM +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote: > > > > > Adding PCI entries to both serial.c and parport_pc.c was that easy > > > > And that's how it should be, IMHO. There needs to be provision for

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-07 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Michael Reinelt wrote: > Brian Gerst wrote: > > > > Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Michael Reinelt wrote: > > > > > > > The card shows up on the PCI bus as one device. For the card provides > &

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-07 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Michael Reinelt wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a problem with my communication card: It's a PCI card with a > NetMos chip, and it provides two serial and one parallel port. It's not > officially supported by the linux kernel, so I wrote my own patch and > sent it to the pa

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > Here is a patch that removes the offending PPC PCI hacky area from the > driver (sym53c8xx_defs.h): > > --- sym53c8xx_defs.h Fri Apr 6 16:23:48 2001 > +++ sym53c8xx_defs.h.orig Sun Mar 4 13:54:11 2001 > @@ -175,6 +1

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > BTW, my 2.4.3-pre8 kernel just said > > | sym53c875-0:0: ERROR (81:0) (3-21-0) (10/9d) @ (script 8a8:0b00). Illegal instruction detected. > | sym53c875-0: script cmd = 1100 > | sym53c875-0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0d 00 03 80 2

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stefano Coluccini wrote: > > I'm still waiting for other reports of st/sym53c8xx on PPC under > > 2.4.x. BTW, > > does it work on other big-endian platforms, like sparc? > > I don't know if it is the same problem, but ... > I have a Motorola MVME5100 (PowerPC 750 based CPU)

Re: Assumption in sym53c8xx.c failed

2001-04-03 Thread Gérard Roudier
} break; /* - Cut Here - Gérard. On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently running 2.4.2-ac28 and today I got a failing

Re: Assumption in sym53c8xx.c failed

2001-04-02 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently running 2.4.2-ac28 and today I got a failing assumption in > sym53c8xx.c. I'm not sure about the exact steps that I did to produce > this error, but it must have been something like: cdparanoia -blank=all, > then sending Ctrl+C

Re: WG: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Butter, Frank wrote: > 2.2.16 claimes to find a ncr53c1510D-chipset, supported by > the driver ncr53c8xx. Which kernel-param would be the correct one for this? There is no specific kernel option apart configuring the NCR53C8XX and/or the SYM53C8XX driver. (And not the 53c7

Re: NCR53c8xx driver and multiple controllers...(not new prob)

2001-03-26 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > Here is the 'alternate' output when the ncr53c8xx driver is > compiled in: > > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0 > scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : warning : revision of 35 is greater than 2. > scsi-ncr53c7,8xx

Re: NCR53c8xx driver and multiple controllers...(not new prob)

2001-03-25 Thread Gérard Roudier
me root=/dev/sda5 ro Just replace the lilo_config_entry_name and the root partition name by the values that match your configuration. Gérard. On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > > > I have a machine with 3 of these controllers (a 4

Re: NCR53c8xx driver and multiple controllers...(not new prob)

2001-03-24 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > I have a machine with 3 of these controllers (a 4 CPU server). The > 3 controllers are: > ncr53c810a-0: rev=0x23, base=0xfa101000, io_port=0x2000, irq=58 > ncr53c810a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking > ncr53c896-1: rev=0x01, base=0xfe004000, io_port=0x30

Re: etymology was: OOM fest

2001-03-24 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Btw, 'decade' comes from Latin 'deca'=10 and dies=days > > No. It is from the Greek dekas, dekados (group of ten). All my french dictionnaries agree with you. Thanks for the fix. :-) > > Could it be due to the word 'decadent' > > Unrelated. (

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-24 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Stephen E. Clark wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > You don't beleve me if I tell you: DOS extender and JVM (Java Virtual > > > Machine) > > > > The JVM doesnt actually. The JVM will itself spontaenously explode in real > > life when out of memory. Maybe the JVM on a DOS

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Is the corruption reproducible? If so, does the corruption go away if > > > > Yes, it is reproducible. In all my tests, I tarred 16 files of 16 MB

Re: HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

2001-03-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, John William wrote: > If shared, edge triggered interrupts are ok then I will talk to the driver > maintainers about the problem. If this isn't ok, then maybe the sanity check > in pci-irq.c would be to force level triggering only on shared PCI > interrupts? DEFINITELY

Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, David Brownell wrote: > Gérard -- > > > Just for information to people that want to complexify the > > pci_alloc_consistent() interface thats looks simple and elegant to me: > > I certainly didn't propose that! Just a layer on top of the > pci_alloc_consistent code -- use

Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, David Brownell wrote: > > > > > extern void * > > > > > pci_pool_dma_to_cpu (struct pci_pool *pool, dma_addr_t handle); > > > > > > > > Do lots of drivers need the reverse mapping? It wasn't on my todo list > > > > yet. > > > > > > Some hardware (like OHCI) talks to driver

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-19 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Justin Gibbs] > > I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus > > far covering the full range of chips from aic7770->aic7899. > > That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new > hardware; that's wh

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-14 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:29:16 -0800, Ion Badulescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:06:44 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>> In fact one has to look out for t

SYM-2 / SYM-1 / NCR-3 drivers UPdates

2001-02-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
Updated drivers for SYMBIOS 53C[8XX|1010] chips are available from the ftp.tux.org site. sym53c8xx-1.7.3-pre1 + ncr53c8xx-3.4.3-pre1 --- URL (entered by hand): ftp.tux.org://roudier/drivers/linux/stable/sym-1.7.3-ncr-3.4.3-pre1.tar.gz sym-2.1.6 -

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > For non routing paths its virtually free because the DMA forced the lines > > > from cache anyway. > > > > Are you actually sure about this? I thought DMA from PCI devices reached > > the main memory without polluting the L2 cache. Otherwise any larg

Re: [PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

2001-02-07 Thread Gérard Roudier
You missed the newer statements about every piece of hardware being assumed to be hot-pluggable and all the hardware being under full control by CPU. You also missed the well known point that only device drivers are broken under Linux and that all the generic O/S code is just perfect. :-) Gér

Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-02-03 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > So, why not using a pure software flag in memory and only tampering the > > things if the offending interrupt is actually delivered ? If the given > > interrupt is delivered and the software

Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-02-02 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > +/* > + * It appears there is an erratum which affects at least the 82093AA > + * I/O APIC. If a level-triggered interrupt input is being masked in > + * the redirection entry while the interrupt is send

Re: [PATCH] make sym53c8xx.c and ncr53c8xx.c call pci_enable_device

2001-01-31 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > If the pci_enable_device() thing is to be added to the drivers, it must > > preferently be placed after the checking against RAID attachement. > > You cant check the signature until the device has been enabled. Maybe you > could poke the LSI guys and fi

Re: [PATCH] make sym53c8xx.c and ncr53c8xx.c call pci_enable_device(241p11)

2001-01-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
You missed that SYMBIOS devices can be attached by RAID firmware and, that, in such situation, the kernel should avoid tampering the SYMBIOS device. The [ncr|sym]53c8xx drivers are aware of that, and donnot attach SYMBIOS devices owned by RAID. If the pci_enable_device() thing is to be added to

Re: [PATCH] make drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.c check request_region'sreturn code (241p9)]

2001-01-28 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hi. > > I apparently forgot to cc the lists on this one. Replies should be cc'ed > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] also. > > Thanks. The change should not harm, but request_region() is very unlikely to fail here. Reason is that the drivers previously perfor

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, paradox3 wrote: > I have an SMP machine (dual PII 400s) running 2.2.16 with one 10,000 RPM IBM > 10 GB SCSI drive > (AIC 7890 on motherboard, using aic7xxx.o), and four various IDE drives. The > SCSI drive > performs the worst. In tests of writing 100 MB and sync'ing, one o

Re: Scanning problems - machine lockups

2001-01-19 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bob Frey wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:24:54PM +, Stephen Kitchener wrote: > > The only thing that might be odd is that the scanner's scsi card and the > > display card are using the same IRQ, but I thought that IRQ sharing was ok in > > the new kernels. The dis

Re: sym-2.1.0-20001230 vs. sg (cdrecord)

2001-01-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > Hi! > > I just wanted to let you know that I successfully ruined > a CD with 2.4.0 + sym-2.1.0-20001230. The system is a RH 7.0 > with glibc-2.2-9, cdrecord-1.9. Thanks for the report. But with so tiny information, it gives about no usefulness

SYM-2 driver released (:=sym53c8xx+ncr53c8xx).

2000-12-30 Thread Gérard Roudier
I just released sym-2.1.0 driver, that, according to my personnal QA plan :-), is the first Beta-release of this major driver version. People interested in either using or just trying it can found the reference tarball at the following URL: ftp://ftp.tux.org/roudier/drivers/portable/sym-2.1.x/

Re: Adaptec AIC7XXX v 6.0.6 BETA Released

2000-12-14 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:56:08 -0700 > > From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > None-the-less, it seems to me that spamming the kernel namespace > > with "current" in at least the way that the 2.2 kernels do (does > > t

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ehh, I think I found it. > > Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()". > > Oops. > > I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that Poor European Gérard as slim as 1.84 meter - 78 Kg these days. What about old days poor European L

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:17:21 +0100 (CET) >From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > >> Tell me one valid use of this information first :-) > >

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:07:01 +0100 (CET) >From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >So, if you want to fix this insane PCI interface: > >1) Provide the _actual_ BARs values in the pci dev structure, ot

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Martin Mares wrote: > Hello! > > > It is the bar cookies in pci dev structure that are insane, in my opinion. > > > > If a driver needs BARs values, it needs actual BARs values and not some > > stinking cookies. What a driver can do with BAR cookies other than using > > t

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:30:59 +0100 (CET) >From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > >> Really, in 2.4.x sparc64 requires PCI config space hacker

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:49:52 +0100 (CET) >From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >If now, the PCI stuff is claimed to be cleaned up, then _all_ the >hacks have to be removed definitely. As a re

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Martin Mares wrote: > Hello Gerard! > > > Having to call some pdev_enable_device() to have the cache line size > > configured looks like shit to me. After all, the BARs, INT, LATENCY TIMER, > > etc.. are configured prior to entering driver probe. > > Once upon a time, the

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Here are a few more: > > > > net/acenic.c: pci_write_config_byte(ap->pdev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, > > Acenic is at least setting it to the correct values, not hardcoding it. > > > net/gmac.c: PCI_C

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Here are a few more: > > net/acenic.c: pci_write_config_byte(ap->pdev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, > net/gmac.c: PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, 8); > scsi/sym53c8xx.c: printk(NAME53C8XX ": PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE set to %d (fix-up).\n", For this one, this happens on

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > If/When x86 (or all?) architectures use this, will it make sense to > > remove the PCI space cache line setting from drivers ? > > Or is there borked hardware out there that require drivers to say > > "This cacheline size must be xxx bytes, anything else

Re: [2*PATCH] alpha I/O access and mb()

2000-12-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Abramo Bagnara wrote: > Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > > > Based on that, let me claim that most of blind barriers inserted this way > > are useless (thus sob-optimal) and may band-aid useful barriers that are > > missing. The result is sub

Re: [2*PATCH] alpha I/O access and mb()

2000-12-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Abramo Bagnara wrote: > > Here you are two patches: > > alpha-mb-2.2.diff add the missing mb() to the cores that still lack it > (against 2.2.18pre25) > > alpha-mb-2.4.diff add missing defines from core_t2.h for non generic > kernel (against 2.4.0test11) > > Please apply

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Riley wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > So what? My former machine ran fine with Win95/WinNT. Linux wouldn't even > > end booting the kernel. Reason: P/100 was running at 120Mhz. Fixed that, no > > trouble for years. Not the only case of WinXX running (apparent

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 07:35:41PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > I only have spec 1.0 on paper. I should have checked 1.1. Anyway, it may > > still exist bridges that have been designed prior to spec. 1.1. > > Yes, DEC 2105x bridges, for example

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:37:41PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > Hmmm... > > The PCI spec. says that Limit registers define the top addresses > > _inclusive_. > > Correct. > > > The spec. does not seem to imagine that a Limit register lower tha

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: Hmmm... The PCI spec. says that Limit registers define the top addresses _inclusive_. The spec. does not seem to imagine that a Limit register lower than the corresponding Base register will ever exist anywhere, in my opinion. :-) This let me think t

RE: accessing on-card ram/rom

2000-11-09 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked at the IO-mapping.txt file. It says that > on x86 architecture it should not make any difference. > It also says that "on x86 it _is_ the same memory space. So > on x86 it actually works to just dereference a pointer". For bus_to_virt() to

Re: [PATCH] Fix SCSI proc oops

2000-10-14 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:43:09 +0200 > >From: Torben Mathiasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >David, why is tpnt->proc_name NULL on sparc for devices not > >existing? Every driver has th

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 10 Oct 2000, Gnea wrote: > > >> Please add this to your list. Linux is unusable in these machines. > >> I have cc'ed Martin and Linus because they play in that PCI area. > > > >erm, looking at your list it says that you're using Redhat 7.0, whi

Re: which is it ncr53c810 or ncr53c810a?

2000-10-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
810A Your problem doesn't look like an SCSI transport error to me. Any SCSI controller will probably not give better result. Your device does not like some SCSI command and returns CHECK CONDITION status, then returns SENSE DATA that are passed to the application client. > CDB: 52 01 00

Re: Socket Interface

2000-09-28 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Peter Samuelson] > > > But it really bugs me when someone uses the term 'Linux 6.2' (: > > > I could not resist pointing out the distinction. > > [Gérard Roudier] > > You seem to do the same confu

Re: Socket Interface

2000-09-28 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Peter Samuelson] > > > There is no Linux 6.2. The newest version is a prerelease of 2.4.0. > > [Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > I'll bet you a beer he's using RedHat :) A german beer ? ;-) > Yes, yes. You know he's using Red Hat and

Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

2000-09-22 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Michel Lanners wrote: > > >> static inline int pci_enable_device(struct pci_device *dev) > > >> { > > >> return pci_enable_device_features(USE_IO|USE_MM); > > >> } > > (snip) > > > And what about other features ? > > > I mean: > > > - Bus Master > > >

Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

2000-09-18 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > All I wanted was a function that allows the driver to decide that which > > needs to be enabled. > > > > pci_enable_device(struct pci_dev *dev, byte enable_mask) > > > > This would allow drivers to enable that which it needs and not weird out > > the h

Re: An elevator algorithm (patch)

2000-09-17 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 17 Sep 2000, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > While the queue is plugged or with things like SCSI your logic > > > change won't work because in such case if your request is lower the > > > lowest in

Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

2000-09-16 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > > [

Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

2000-09-15 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > > Just as an example: imagine that the IO windows haven't been set up > > > correctly. If the low-level driver just blindly enables IO cycles by > > >

Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

2000-09-15 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > The PCI Specification states, in part, that either the BIOS or the > > driver has to enable the device. So, many drivers find that the device > > has not been enabled. This is normal and necessa