--- Chris Newport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> >>In general, you should not need to have the Sun
> firmware in your
> >>drivers, just upload them to the card and array
> from Solaris and they
> >>will stay there in nvram.
> >
> >Not true if you boot from the SOC/SOCAL disk
David S. Miller wrote:
In general, you should not need to have the Sun firmware in your
drivers, just upload them to the card and array from Solaris and they
will stay there in nvram.
Not true if you boot from the SOC/SOCAL disks, OBP will load it's
own firmware which is very slow and has tons
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:21:15 +
Chris Newport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In general, you should not need to have the Sun firmware in your
> drivers, just upload them to the card and array from Solaris and they
> will stay there in nvram.
Not true if you boot from the SOC/SOCAL disks, OBP wil
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:19:40AM -0800, Dennis Jenkins wrote:
> Yup, I read that too. And immediately there after I
> downloaded the last 2.2 kernel and tried to compile
> it. Unfortunately for me, GCC 3.3.5 choked heavily on
> it. I will try again when I figure out how to get
> Gentoo to down
Dennis Jenkins wrote:
The soc/pluto stuff has not been maintained since
2.2.x and AFAIK this
is also true for socal.
Yup, I read that too. And immediately there after I
downloaded the last 2.2 kernel and tried to compile
it. Unfortunately for me, GCC 3.3.5 choked heavily on
it. I will try
--- Chris Newport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have no idea about Gentoo versions, but Splack 8.0
> has a working 2.2
> kernel with soc and socal modules. Everything you
> need to experiment
> with 2.4 is there, but the toolset and compiler are
> too old for 2.6
> In general, you should not n
Thank you for your response! Details below.
ps- I'm at work. My box is at home. The details
given below are from memory.
My box specs: 8 processor E3500 (336MHz), 10G ram, 8x
18.2G fiber channel drives in the 3500 chassis, and an
external A3500 raid array with 35x 9.1G scsi disks.
Linux can se
Dennis Jenkins wrote:
Does this mean that I will be able to successfully
compile a 2.6 kernel using gcc 3.3.5 on my sparc64
gentoo box? Yeah!
now.. If only I (or someone) could fix the fcal/socal
driver. I even tried using the socal_asm.h firmware
patch derived from the Solaris 10 "socal" firmwar
Does this mean that I will be able to successfully
compile a 2.6 kernel using gcc 3.3.5 on my sparc64
gentoo box? Yeah!
now.. If only I (or someone) could fix the fcal/socal
driver. I even tried using the socal_asm.h firmware
patch derived from the Solaris 10 "socal" firmware.
No luck. :(
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:44:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Thanks. Many of these fixups are due to a 64-bit-resource patch in Greg's
> bk-pci tree which he has now reverted. That being said:
> - That patch will come back sometime
> - Fixes like the below make sense anyway and can be merged
Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks. Many of these fixups are due to a 64-bit-resource patch in Greg's
bk-pci tree which he has now reverted. That being said:
- That patch will come back sometime
- Fixes like the below make s
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