Re: [RFC v4 03/25] m68k/atari: Move Atari-specific code out of drivers/char/nvram.c

Christian T. Steigies
2015-07-22T14:33:44Z

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:22:21PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > Hi Finn,
> >
> > I'm afraid I cannot test anything on Atari hardware at present - my
> > Falcon ate it's IDE disk partition table with all the fun that entails.
>
> That doesn't sound good.
>
> > Haven't even begun to try and recover that yet.
> >
> > If you send a patch I could build a kernel and send that to Christian
> > for testing (if he's got his Falcon up and running - might be a tad warm
> > in the attic for that, in fact).
>
> Anyone with a suitable Atari, i.e. ATARIHW_PRESENT(TT_CLK), who can boot
> both TOS and Linux could resolve the question. (Perhaps with an emulator?)

The Falcon is not powered on currently but it should still work. What should
I test?

> Any old kernel binary would do, since atari_scsi should print either
> "HOSTID=n" or "this_id n" at startup.
>
> If n doesn't agree with what TOS says about the host's SCSI ID, then I
> think a trivial patch is safe enough. Especially if cat /proc/driver/nvram
> produces a "SCSI host ID : m" that does agree with TOS.

Christian