From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:31:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:46997 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20026985AbXLHSb0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:31:26 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB8IVM5I029453; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:31:23 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lB8G4od7015182; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:04:50 GMT Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:04:49 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] SGIWD93: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28 Message-ID: <20071208160449.GA3361@linux-mips.org> References: <20071202103309.6A926C2EB4@solo.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071202103309.6A926C2EB4@solo.franken.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17733 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:33:09AM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > SGI IP28 machines would need special treatment (enable adding addtional > wait states) when accessing memory uncached. To avoid this pain I > changed the driver to use only cached access to memory. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Acked-by: Ralf Baechle The machine really is as insane as Thomas makes it sound. Actually even more so. Ralf