Re: qla1280 endiannes and 64/32bit fixes

[Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>]

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

Christoph> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:54:13AM -0500, James Bottomley
Christoph> wrote:
>> However, I have another question for you: Does the card BIOS
>> actually get to run on bootup?  It doesn't (because it can't) on
>> PA, so I get strange values for certain NVRAM quantities (like the
>> 32 bit mode, but more importantly, the offset of all my devices
>> gets set to 1).  I was thinking about doing an override to set them
>> more sensibly and wondered if you were having the same problem.

Christoph> Guys, given that problems with that nvram reading stuff
Christoph> show up again and again, shouldn't we rip out the code
Christoph> looking at the nvram completely?  Or at least disable it by
Christoph> default and enable it only by a module option (for both
Christoph> qla1280 and qla2xxx).

Christoph, I have thought about this before and while I agree in
principle that relying on BIOS settings is inherently broken, I am
also wary of changing a behavior a number of users are currently
relying upon.

Second, for qla2xxx you need a persistent place where you can store
the Fibre Channel ID (the name slips my mind right now).

Cheers,
Jes