From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
To: spiette@generation.net
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra/66
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:56:00 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200005241756.TAA00723@piglet.grunz.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000524130410.C1169@xim.bellglobal.com>
Hi Simon,
On 24 May, this message from Simon Piette echoed through cyberspace:
[about the promise/66 in a Mac]
>> Forget about these old patches. Go to my PCI page:
>>
>> http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/pci.html
>>
>> and get yourself my latest patches for either 2.2.15 (kernel.org) or
>> 2.3.99-pre7 (linuxcare.au) kernels. For 2.2.15, you need Andre's patches
>> in addition to mine. Apply his IDE patches first.
To all those interested: there are new patches up for 2.2.15; I screwed
up with the older ones. Went back to an old version of my PCI patches.
Damn ;-)
> Great! It's working without a hitch (but with a few kernel args!).
Which ones are those? I need none; I could do with idebus=xx for bus
frequency; but the default is ok...
> I have to say that I can't put my card in slot 3 or 4, but only in 1 or
> 2. Not an issue for me but you may want to know ...
What was your machine again? There might be an issue either with bus
mastering (some brain-dead designs don't allow bus masters in all slots;
the Promise is a bus master) or with multiple PCI buses. In the first
case there's nothing you can do; in the second case I might have screwed
up my patches....
> Also, the Promise Card is the only one IDE controller on my Mac, but it
> gets detected at ide2 and ide3. Not an isssue for me neither :-)
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y in your .config; the option is 'Boot off-board
chipsets first'. I guess reserving two IDE buses that are not actually
probed is braindamaged PC legacy ;-)
Be carefull when actually activating this, as your disks will change
devices, and your /etc/fstab will be out of sync!
> Thanks for your work! I'll post instructions on linuxppc-user ...
You're welcome ;-)
Michel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-24 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-16 17:32 Promise Ultra/66 Simon Piette
2000-05-16 20:39 ` Michel Lanners
2000-05-24 17:04 ` Simon Piette
2000-05-24 17:56 ` Michel Lanners [this message]
2000-05-24 18:39 ` Simon Piette
2000-05-25 18:32 ` Michel Lanners
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