Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect'
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:55:39 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0307111646470.9740-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057933578.20636.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On 11 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Gwe, 2003-07-11 at 15:02, Dave Jones wrote:
> > - (Possibly linked to above bug) VIA APIC routing is currently broken.
> >   boot with 'noapic'.
>
> Does 2.5 not have the INTD routing fix yet ?

In 2.5.75.

> > - The hptraid/promise RAID drivers are currently non functional, and
> >   will probably be converted to use device-mapper.

Please put software RAID here to avoid confusion.

> > IDE.
> > ~~~~
> > - Known problems with the current IDE code.
> >   o  Serverworks OSB4 may panic on bad blocks or other non fatal errors
> FIXED
> >   o  PCMCIA IDE hangs on eject
> Should be fixed in 2.5, fixed(ish) in 2.4
> >   o  ide_scsi is completely broken in 2.5.x. Known problem. If you need it
> >      either use 2.4 or fix it 8)
> > - IDE disk geometry translators like OnTrack, EZ Partition, Disk Manager
> >   are no longer supported. The only way forward is to remove the translator
> >   from the drive, and start over.
>
> Or to use device mapper to remap the disk.

"hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" boot options can be used.
Or can I remove them?

--
Bartlomiej