From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Port Multiplier Patch 2.6.22.1 on Alpha Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:07:44 -0400 Message-ID: <46D64290.2010306@garzik.org> References: <46D638A3.2030704@23palmer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:45423 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751030AbXH3EHs (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:07:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46D638A3.2030704@23palmer.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Evans Cc: htejun@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tom Evans wrote: > Have you heard of such and issue with the 3124-2/4276 combination? > Is anyone else trying this driver on an Alpha? Alpha should not be operationally much different from other little endian 64-bit platforms. The PCI swizzle might be weird (what is your Alpha platform?), is the only Alpha-specific thing that comes to mind. > I have similar such behavior before when using drivers that generate > many unaligned accesses - I only have seen 2 places they occur in > sata_sil24 and have fixed them myself, but that made no difference. We definitely want to fix all these you find. Please post more info... Also, if you are highly motivated, I would love to see if other SATA cards have similar problems on Alpha... Jeff