> "Sumit" == Saxena, Sumit writes:
Sumit> LSI has megaraid_sas driver with big endian support for driver
Sumit> version "06.506.00.00". But to add big endian support for latest
Sumit> upstream megaraid_sas driver (06.600.18.00), we need to make some
Sumit> more changes.
There are a few very
> "Sumit" == Saxena, Sumit writes:
>> I realize that the big-endian patch from Martin isn't complete for
>> fusion, but it is for other cards.
Correct. I had no interest in Fury/Invader and no access to those
boards.
Sumit> Martin's patch does not have few changes needed in function
Sumit
> We have done a code review of what has been proposed and we believe it is
> incomplete. We don't think that in its current state it will serve Linux as
> well as we all want it to.
I fully appreciate you're intent, but I can't imagine how you can think that it
wont serve Linux in it's curre
ay, August 26, 2013 2:42 PM
To: Maloy, Joe
Cc: Christoph Hellwig; Saxena, Sumit; Ben Collins; Martin K. Petersen;
DL-MegaRAID Linux; linux-scsi; aradf...@gmail.com; Maly, JoLyn
Subject: Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:15:42PM -0600, Maloy, Joe wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:26:30PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> Historically, waiting on commercial upstream to deliver what the community
> has already done is wasted time. Likewise, historically, allowing patches
> that partially implement things (in this respect, support one generation of
> ca
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:15:42PM -0600, Maloy, Joe wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> I would appreciate you toning down your rhetoric. Please keep it
> professional.
If the b word is not in your business dictionary I have no idea how you
get any work done, and I really don't care if you feel offended or
On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:15 PM, "Maloy, Joe" wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I would appreciate you toning down your rhetoric. Please keep it
> professional.
>
> What Sumit reported is correct. We are polling our Marketing and Product
> management organizations to see if we want to productize this type of
, Sumit
Cc: Ben Collins; Martin K. Petersen; DL-MegaRAID Linux; linux-scsi;
aradf...@gmail.com; Maloy, Joe
Subject: Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:51:07PM +0530, Saxena, Sumit wrote:
> We are conferring with Marketing and Product Management on direct
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:51:07PM +0530, Saxena, Sumit wrote:
> We are conferring with Marketing and Product Management on direction wrt
> Big endian support for megaraid_sas driver. Our goal is to gain clear
> direction within two weeks.
Sorry guys, but this is just utter bullshit. There a
>-Original Message-
>From: Ben Collins [mailto:be...@servergy.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 10:55 PM
>To: Saxena, Sumit
>Cc: Martin K. Petersen; DL-MegaRAID Linux; linux-scsi;
>aradf...@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver
>
&
through, since it actually
does work, and more importantly, works right now.
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.peter...@oracle.com]
>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 6:42 AM
>> To: Ben Collins
>> Cc: Martin K. Petersen; DL-Meg
;aradf...@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver
>
>>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins writes:
>
>Ben,
>
>Ben> Considering your patch has had two success stories (I suspect yours
>Ben> was on SPARC, so that would even make
> "Ben" == Ben Collins writes:
Ben,
Ben> Considering your patch has had two success stories (I suspect yours
Ben> was on SPARC, so that would even make two different platforms) and
Ben> low likelihood of regression on little endian, I think it's pretty
Ben> safe.
I ordered a MegaRAID card t
On Aug 14, 2013, at 3:44 PM, "Martin K. Petersen"
wrote:
>> "Ben" == Ben Collins writes:
>
> Ben> You're the man. Forward ported this to 3.11-rc code base. Worked
> Ben> like a charm.
>
> Heh, you just beat me to it :)
>
> Formatting differences aside there were a few glitches, however.
> "Ben" == Ben Collins writes:
Ben> You're the man. Forward ported this to 3.11-rc code base. Worked
Ben> like a charm.
Heh, you just beat me to it :)
Formatting differences aside there were a few glitches, however. I
outlined them below...
Btw. the reason I did cpu_to_le16(0) etc. was mos
> "Martin" == Martin K Petersen writes:
And against upstream...
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
commit 6d6db0df277b46ea538be5c70e89347436a8a114
Author: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Sat Aug 10 17:55:58 2013 -0400
megaraid_sas: Big endian support
Thi
> "Ben" == Ben Collins writes:
Ben> Based on some searching, back when the megaraid_sas driver was
Ben> first introduced in 2005, issues were raised with the lack of
Ben> support for big-endian architectures[1]. In this conversation, it
Ben> was said that LSI would revisit this later, and thu
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