From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: regarding conversion to new EH Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:07:20 -0400 Message-ID: <44972018.4040901@rtr.ca> References: <20060617113104.GC11755@htj.dyndns.org> <4493EF61.9060103@pobox.com> <449412FD.8030102@pobox.com> <4494BB5F.6030108@gmail.com> <44971421.1070206@pobox.com> <449715CA.1030902@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1758 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964944AbWFSWHW (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:07:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <449715CA.1030902@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> >> My AMD64 test system, running 2.6.17, gets stuck in libata initialization >> for the pdc_adma cards -- looks like interrupts aren't working in the >> driver. >> >> So now I'm building a 2.6.15 kernel, to run on the same machine that I >> originally used to test this driver (a P4 system), and we'll eventually >> find out what went wrong. And maybe I can get these cards tested and >> shipped, too. (never lose sight of the original goal!). > > Okay, no problems on 2.6.15.7, so it must be something that changed > in libata/pdc_adma since then. I'll start a 2.6.16.15 build now.. MMmmm.. that's interesting. The pdc_adma driver works fine in all versions including 2.6.17 on my P4 box. I wonder why it's fussy on the AMD64 machine.. ? Sigh.. yet another time sink to play with. ;)