From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Bruno Vidal Cc: "parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] How retrieving HPA/SPA with the device node In-Reply-To: Message from Bruno Vidal of "Fri, 17 May 2002 16:11:07 +0200." <3CE50F7B.771EC8B8@admin.france.hp.com> References: <3CA9BB50.1FCEBDF4@admin.france.hp.com> <20020402164417.6C6B6482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> <3CE50F7B.771EC8B8@admin.france.hp.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:36:47 -0600 From: Grant Grundler Message-Id: <20020517153647.41BAD482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Bruno Vidal wrote: > But as it has been said, the pointer pci_dev in the structure scsi_host > is not always pointing to a pci_dev. For my poor 712/100, it point > to NULL :-( (it is normal, my scsi host is not a PCI one). The best idea we came up with was to require the dump partition be on boot device and pull the HPA from page zero. Matthew Wilcox was mentioning that this problem will be solved in 2.5 kernel since it will get an IO tree similar to HPUX's. TBH, I'm personally not interested in chasing down solutions for boxes that don't have PCI. hth, grant