Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:54, Jessica Blank wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote:
> > >
> > > > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the
> > > > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they did not work. So,
> > > > getting sick and tired of rebooting the machine around 50 times, I decided
> > > > to compile them as modules, so I could quickly work on them, insmod them
> > > > and rmmod them.
> > >
> > > IDE as module is known brain dead. Compile them on in the kernel and
> > > send me the whole dmesg output with the ide-disk compile in.
> >
> > Gyaah. Round and round and round we go... ^_^;;;
> >
> > Oh, another thing that pisses me off about 2.4.20.. WHERE THE HELL DID
> > THEY PUT HFS SUPPORT!?!??! I cannot find the HFS option ANYWHERE under
> > Filesystems. I CAN find it on 2.2.25... what's wrong with this picture!? I
> > KNOW the driver is in there; I see hfs.c... but I don't see the config
> > option.
>
> Hrm... It seem to be here... You may need CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Dear God, HFS is _STILL_ experimental!?
>
> > Ben, hopefully your patch will fix this annoyance. I'm sure it will, no?
> > :)
> >
> > >
> > > > > > This is very frustrating.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And yes, I have already checked the connections to the disk. They are
> > > > > > fine. :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you send me the complete dmesg log along with the version of the
> > > > > kernel you are using ?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2.4.20 and... the dmesg is attached. Also, below (in case y'all wanna read
> > > > it inline). NOTE: Again, I compiled ide-mod and ide-disk AS MODULES after
> > > > getting SICK AND TIRED OF REBOOTING since compiling them into the kernel
> > > > itself didn't work either... at the end of this log, you can see the
> > > > output generated by me insmodding ide-mod and then ide-disk, twice. As you
> > > > can see, ide-mod seems to see the controller (it's a Promise Ultra
> > > > DMA/33) but no disks, and ide-disk doesn't seem to do anything useful at
> > > > all...
> > >
> > > Can you try my patches ? (2.4.20-ben10 patch available on kernel.org)
> > > and send me a log with those ?
> > >
> >
> > Certainly! I'd love to. What directory izzit? Can you provide a full URL?
>
> pub/linux/kernel/people/benh, then get the -ben10 patch against 2.4.20
>
> > I remember you; I used your kernel on my G4 Cube way back when. You rule.
> > :)
>
> Heh, well, I'm the maintainer for the PowerMac support, so there are
> great chances my kernels work better than standard ones on those
> machines ;) Though I'm trying to sync regulary with the official
> tree.
>
What ticks me off is the utter lack of attention paid to non-x86 platforms
by Linus and crew. Shouldn't your superb patches be integrated regularly
into the main (Linus) kernel tree? :/ Oh well. OK, off to patch I go.
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k
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