Re: PATCH: Stop megaraid trashing other i960 based devices

Re: PATCH: Stop megaraid trashing other i960 based devices

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:07:18PM -0400, hch@infradead.org wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:03:28PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Most of the megaraids don't have subvendor ids... so that doesn't work at
> > all.
> 
> Okay.  In that case we should apply the patch and shoot some megraid
> hardware engineer.

Now, I love a good megaraid bashing as much as the next guy.  Just ask
Peter Jarrett and Atul Mukker.  But in this case I have to side with
them.  The cards w/o subsystem IDs all predate the existance of
subsystem IDs in the PCI spec, and I'm pretty sure the IDs in the i960
of that vintage are hard-coded so AMI couldn't have changed them if
they wanted to.  So their magic words were the equivalent of what we
now do with subsystem IDs.  It's only the older cards that have a
problem, AFAIK.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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Re: PATCH: Stop megaraid trashing other i960 based devices

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:07:06PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> of that vintage are hard-coded so AMI couldn't have changed them if
> they wanted to.  So their magic words were the equivalent of what we
> now do with subsystem IDs.  It's only the older cards that have a
> problem, AFAIK.

Certain megaraid 3 era cards - so yes quite old stuff only. Its not the
only driver with these kind of problems although the other i960 stuff I have
does all have a unique id or class.

Re: PATCH: Stop megaraid trashing other i960 based devices

[hch]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:07:06PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Now, I love a good megaraid bashing as much as the next guy.  Just ask
> Peter Jarrett and Atul Mukker.  But in this case I have to side with
> them.  The cards w/o subsystem IDs all predate the existance of
> subsystem IDs in the PCI spec, and I'm pretty sure the IDs in the i960
> of that vintage are hard-coded so AMI couldn't have changed them if
> they wanted to.  So their magic words were the equivalent of what we
> now do with subsystem IDs.  It's only the older cards that have a
> problem, AFAIK.

Okay, so let's shoot an i960 engineer instead.  Intel bashing is even
more fun anyway ;-)