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From: Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com>
To: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: aoe fails on sparc64
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:06:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3afbacad05090309064b3cad87@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k6i0bnyn.fsf@coraid.com>

On 9/1/05, Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> wrote:

> The aoe driver looks OK, but it turns out there's a byte swapping bug
> in the vblade that could be related if he's running the vblade on a
> big endian host (even though he said it was an x86 host), but I
> haven't heard back from the original poster yet.

It is in fact a x86_64 kernel, but with a mostly x86 userland. Vblade
is pure x86 code.

> The vblade bug was the omission of swapping the bytes in each short.
> The fix below shows what I mean:

Unfortunately it doesn't fix anything here. The client still reports
the same wrong size as before.  The dmesg output is identical, too.

Regards,
Jim

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-03 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 13:30 aoe fails on sparc64 Jim MacBaine
2005-08-31 15:50 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-01  6:24   ` David S. Miller
2005-09-01 19:13     ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-01 19:45       ` David S. Miller
2005-09-03 16:06       ` Jim MacBaine [this message]
2005-09-06 20:31         ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-09 14:06           ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-16 13:36 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-16 20:34   ` David S. Miller
2005-09-16 23:35   ` David S. Miller
2005-09-17 10:10     ` Jim MacBaine
2005-09-18  6:12       ` David S. Miller
2005-09-19 14:24     ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-19 18:21       ` David S. Miller
2005-09-19 18:29         ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-19 18:38         ` Ed L Cashin

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