Re: aoe fails on sparc64

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>]

Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Let's take this discussion off the lkml, because I doubt there's a
problem with the aoe driver in the kernel, and I can easily follow up
to the lkml with a synopsis if it turns out I'm wrong.

Jim MacBaine, I'm going to ask for more details in a separate email.

-- 
  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>