Bug#271419: "mesh" SCSI driver should be loaded by default on OldWorld Powermac

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 271419 hw-detect
tags 271419 pending
thanks

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:15:17AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The following is from the installed system, so the "mesh" driver is 
> installed on this system, unlike the installing system before I 
> manually did "modprobe mesh".  I don't know if this changes 
> anything.

/proc/device-tree is exported straight from the firmware; the set of
drivers you have loaded doesn't matter.

> rick@debian:~$ for i in $( find /proc/device-tree/ -type f | xargs 
> grep -l mesh ); do ls -ld $i; cat -v $i; echo; done
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 17 Sep 13 07:09 /proc/device-tree/aliases/scsi
> /pci/mac-io/mesh^@
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 17 Sep 13 07:09 /proc/device-
> tree/aliases/scsi-int
> /pci/mac-io/mesh^@
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 5 Sep 13 07:09 /proc/device-tree/pci/mac-
> io/mesh/name
> mesh^@
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 5 Sep 13 07:09 /proc/device-tree/pci/mac-
> io/mesh/compatible
> mesh^@
> rick@debian:~$

A fix to autodetect this hardware is in my local tree now waiting for
the Subversion repository to come back up.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]