From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: sgpio for nvidia mcp55 -v2 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:48:27 -0800 Message-ID: <49776DFB.8090506@kernel.org> References: <20061031104055.GA8898@infradead.org> <15F501D1A78BD343BE8F4D8DB854566B0C8DDCF5@hkemmail01.nvidia.com> <86802c440711062009t7e98d27fqdfb466b9843da060@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440901180120u3e60e73dm53a37b7cd9034915@mail.gmail.com> <4972F4E5.3030203@kernel.org> <49768355.4040301@kernel.org> <49773189.6050009@seiner.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:39948 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768AbZAUStB (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:49:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49773189.6050009@seiner.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Yan Seiner Cc: Peer Chen , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Yan Seiner wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: >> Impact: new features >> >> based on patch on >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=116289338705418&w=2 >> >> 1. update the patch for 2.6.19 to latest upstream ( 2.6.28?) >> 2. fix shared sgpio to support several mcp55 + io55, so every mcp55 have >> seperate spinlock >> 3. use scratch_source as numbering of sgpio instead of address of struct, >> so could go through kexec/kdump >> >> v2: revert NV_ON and NV_OFF, so turn on Activity LED all the time when >> disk is idle. >> > I've tried both this patch and the previous version; neither does > anything for me. I am patching a vanilla 2.6.28.1 kernel. :-( > > I am running an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe: > > 00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1) > 00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) > 00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) > 00:05.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) > > All 6 channels are in use. All of the drive activity lights are lit all > the time. can you boot with "debug" in command line? wonder if your system has SGPIO etc backplane. YH