Problems with qla2xxx drivers in recent kernels

Problems with qla2xxx drivers in recent kernels

[Jurij Smakov]

Hi,

The qlogicfc driver has been removed starting with 2.6.17, and qla2xxx driver was 
supposed to replace its functionality. By now we have received a couple of 
reports, stating that the qla2xxx drive in 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 does not detect the 
drives in SunFire 280R [0] and SunBlade 1000 [1], which qlogicfc in 2.6.16 works 
fine. I wonder whether this problem is known, and if it is, whether there are any 
plans to resolve it. 


[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/09/msg00053.html
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/10/msg00007.html

Best regards,
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Re: Problems with qla2xxx drivers in recent kernels

[Gustavo Zacarias]

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Jurij Smakov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The qlogicfc driver has been removed starting with 2.6.17, and qla2xxx driver was 
> supposed to replace its functionality. By now we have received a couple of 
> reports, stating that the qla2xxx drive in 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 does not detect the 
> drives in SunFire 280R [0] and SunBlade 1000 [1], which qlogicfc in 2.6.16 works 
> fine. I wonder whether this problem is known, and if it is, whether there are any 
> plans to resolve it. 

Did you build said kernels with CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE
enabled? From what we've seen it's required for them to work on those
machines.

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Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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Re: Problems with qla2xxx drivers in recent kernels

[Jurij Smakov]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:44:36AM -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> Did you build said kernels with CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE
> enabled? From what we've seen it's required for them to work on those
> machines.

Hi Gustavo,

Thanks for the tip. It is most probably a firmware issue (I've asked to verify 
that). However, I don't think that the config option you mentioned does anything 
useful. I was able to find its only occurence in the 2.6.18 tree in

arch/ia64/configs/sn2_defconfig

Am I missing something here?

Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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