Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver

["BERTRAND Joël" <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>]

David Miller a écrit :
> From: BERTRAND_Joël <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:28:24 +0200
> 
>> 	Some news about this new driver on sparc32.
>> Test configuration : SS20 with dual SM71, 448 MB, VSIMM, internal raid1, 
>>   ESP100A and HME-ESP (UW). All esp patches are applied against 
>> 2.6.21-rc7 (thus with new IOMMU Sbus support).
> 
> THe IOMMU sbus support patch only effects sparc32, so applying
> that patch for sparc32 testing will have no effect.

	I suppose that I have to read 'only effect sparc64', isn't it ?

>> 	The obtained kernel can boot with init=/bin/bash, but is unable to boot 
>> with init=2. All ESP interfaces are shown and initialized, all disks 
>> (two internal ID1 and 3 and CDROM ID6). When kernel starts init, I can 
>> see on console :
>>
>> 	esp: esp0: reconnect, tag type changed 22 --> 00
>>
>> followed by a lot of insaned messages :-(
> 
> Nevertheless I'll try to look into this.

	Thanks.

> Does the existing ESP driver work fine on this machine?

	The old one works fine.

	Regards,

	JKB