From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
sparclinux <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: sparc64_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:57:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7ea42b4-5b55-0dcf-78cc-634b400219cf@ilande.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRGNgUzCDkXvq3YvihUoh87NFNWOUnqCUbWMAa09oj8N2vskw@mail.gmail.com>
On 28/06/16 00:18, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:38 AM, <alexmcwhirter@triadic.us> wrote:
>> On 2016-06-27 08:23, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>>> If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you.
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, I've been using libata on sparc64 for roughly two years
>> with no issues to report. All of my PATA machines have ALI controllers, not
>> sure if any other controllers were ever used in sparc gear.
>
> The Ultra 5 uses a CMD64x controller.
>
> That said, last time I tried to get that machine working, I couldn't
> partition the disk due to bugs in that driver.
>
> I believe the Ultra 10 uses the same motherboard so it's likely also
> affected. I believe these were in the first generation of "PC" like
> SPARC workstations.
FWIW QEMU's qemu-system-sparc64 emulator also uses the cmd646 controller
and can boot vmlinuz/initrd binaries directly for testing.
ATB,
Mark.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
sparclinux <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: sparc64_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:57:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7ea42b4-5b55-0dcf-78cc-634b400219cf@ilande.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRGNgUzCDkXvq3YvihUoh87NFNWOUnqCUbWMAa09oj8N2vskw@mail.gmail.com>
On 28/06/16 00:18, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:38 AM, <alexmcwhirter@triadic.us> wrote:
>> On 2016-06-27 08:23, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>>> If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you.
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, I've been using libata on sparc64 for roughly two years
>> with no issues to report. All of my PATA machines have ALI controllers, not
>> sure if any other controllers were ever used in sparc gear.
>
> The Ultra 5 uses a CMD64x controller.
>
> That said, last time I tried to get that machine working, I couldn't
> partition the disk due to bugs in that driver.
>
> I believe the Ultra 10 uses the same motherboard so it's likely also
> affected. I believe these were in the first generation of "PC" like
> SPARC workstations.
FWIW QEMU's qemu-system-sparc64 emulator also uses the cmd646 controller
and can boot vmlinuz/initrd binaries directly for testing.
ATB,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-28 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-27 12:23 [PATCH] sparc64: sparc64_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-06-27 12:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-06-27 16:38 ` alexmcwhirter
2016-06-27 16:38 ` [PATCH] sparc64: sparc64_defconfig: conve =?UTF-8?Q?rt=20to=20use=20libata alexmcwhirter
2016-06-27 23:18 ` [PATCH] sparc64: sparc64_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers Julian Calaby
2016-06-27 23:18 ` Julian Calaby
2016-06-28 20:57 ` Mark Cave-Ayland [this message]
2016-06-28 20:57 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2016-06-28 10:27 ` Meelis Roos
2016-06-28 10:37 ` Julian Calaby
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