From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adam Kropelin" Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:55:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver Message-Id: <056b01c77fc1$e21bd900$84163e05@kroptech.com> List-Id: References: <20070412.233350.41640545.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070412.233350.41640545.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Adam Kropelin wrote: > Adam Kropelin wrote: >> David Miller wrote: >>> Thanks in advance for testing. >> >> I've given the new driver a run on my U1. A bit of history before the >> results: 2.6.13 (aurora 2.0) esp driver works well on this machine. >> However, 2.6.20 stock does not: it dies with DMA errors after >> (correctly) identifying the disks. (I can get the exact errors, if >> they're useful.) > > I attempted to bisect the stock esp driver failure between 2.6.13 and > 2.6.20...and discovered that stock 2.6.13 doesn't work, either. The > aurora 2.6.13-1.1603sp13 kernel works perfectly every time. I'll try > 2.6.12 and also review the patches in aurora's 2.6.13. 2.6.12 also fails, so apparently Spot waved a magic wand over the aurora 2.6.13 kernel. I'll go look for esp-eye-of-newt.patch in the SRPM. --Adam