Re: Linux kernel 2.6.16 on 7025-F50 with ServeRAID 4H adapter - IPS driver failure
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:40:11 +0200, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:53:49PM +0300, AlexB wrote:
>> Good day,
>>
>> cannot find any reference to successful installation of IBM ServeRAID adapter
>> for RS/6000 machine with Linux. I am not using Debian linux (it is rather Red
>> Hat FC5-ppc) but I presume kernel/drivers are more or less the same. Managed to
>> start Debian netinst CD for PPC platform (version 3.1r2, AFAIR) and got same
>> results with kernel 2.6.8, while 2.4.27 just hangs somewhere in the middle. The
>
>Please try booting a non-prehistoric kernel version :)
>
>Seriously, it would be interesting to try out the etch/beta2 images, which
>carry 2.6.15, or even better the daily builds, which carry 2.6.16 right now,
>and soon 2.6.17.
>
>If the problem still persists on those, the correct course of action is to
>file a bug report against the linux-2.6 package, and tag the subject with
>[powerpc]
>
>Friendly,
>
>Sven Luther
Thanks for pointing me to a right direction. I have tried to boot testing
netboot CDROM, everything went fine until that IPS driver. Exactly same behavior
as it did on FC5-ppc distribution. In fact, there are tree different errors
spotted when loading IPS driver (looks like they depend on driver parameters -
whether you use memory-mapped IO or control registers). I will try to file a bug
report now, looks like IBM ServeRAID driver needs special initialization on PPC
platform (we have several ServeRAID adapters working just fine with kernels
2.4.20 and 2.6.16 on x86 servers!)
Alex
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