From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:11:59 -0500 Message-ID: <43F9A3FF.308@pobox.com> References: <20060217023613.GA30583@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:27347 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932447AbWBTLMD (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:12:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060217023613.GA30583@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Anderson Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Tarte@us.ibm.com, Robert , Jeff Garzik 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 applied to sas-2.6.git#upstream (and #ALL, and thus to Andrew's -mm) Jeff