From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Tarte@us.ibm.com,
Robert <Robert_Tarte@adaptec.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:11:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F9A3FF.308@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060217023613.GA30583@us.ibm.com>
Mike Anderson wrote:
> This patch addresses the issue of the aic94xx driver not working on
> non-x86 or on systems where the card bios had been disabled.
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6042
>
> Rob Tarte, Jeff Ding, and I coordinated on the fix for the OCM issue.
>
> The patch has been run on a Powermac G5, a PPC64, and IA64 based system.
>
> -andmike
> --
> Michael Anderson
> andmike@us.ibm.com
>
> This purpose of this patch is to allow the aic94xx driver to load and
> function on archs that do not allow the cards bios to run. This patch
> contains a forward port of code changes made to the adp94xx driver
> that inits the ocm if the bios did not. The patch also provides default
> parameters for flash values if the flash data cannot be read.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
applied to sas-2.6.git#upstream (and #ALL, and thus to Andrew's -mm)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-20 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-17 2:36 [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env Mike Anderson
2006-02-20 11:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-02-21 19:16 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-22 6:26 ` Mike Anderson
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2006-02-22 21:24 Tarte, Robert
2006-02-22 21:36 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-01 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-01 20:57 Tarte, Robert
2006-03-01 21:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-01 21:25 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-02 14:45 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-01 21:22 Tarte, Robert
2006-03-01 21:39 ` Jeff Garzik
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