Re: m68k v3.16 status update
On 09.08.2014 01:25, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Hi Tuomas,
There's still the Amiga Zorro ESP patch out in limbo - DaveM
suggested a change to enable SCSI-2 features to help with extended
message bytes but that did not work as intended. Haven't had time to
follow that one up. Tuomas' fix to the driver to bypass DMA for
message in works OK though - do you want it submitted back to
linux-scsi as is, or wait for a perfect solution (pun on me ...)?
Just to refresh your memory, the final fix was not to bypass DMA at
any level (I did that for the command transfer, but that didn't
help), but to have a dedicated slave_configure() function in the
Amiga Zorro ESP driver that would not enable TCQ.
You guessed right about memory failing me - it wasn't about DMA in the
end (for some reason, I seem to have DMA stuck in my mind at the
moment), Do you see any other avenues to try and enable tagged
commands in the ESP chip? We tried one config register only so far...
I think I've tested almost all possible register settings for the chip,
but it occurred to me that it is not enough to enable some chip features
by flipping bits. The code in esp_scsi would need to be modified to
handle the behaviour of these enabled features also.
So, rethinking the code in esp_scsi would be one option.
The second possibility is that I have a buggy chip in my setup. Removing
a sticker from my SCSI-board revealed the chip to be an AMD AM53CF94.
There are different versions of the SCSI-boards out there with different
chips; NCR, AMD, and QLogic, so if we had more people testing the driver
we would find out if the chip is actually the problem. (Is anyone even
testing the ISA/PCI cards that use esp_scsi?)
Those are my suggestions at the TCQ problem.
But do we really need TCQ?
-Tuomas
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