Hi,
* Michel Lanners (mlan@cpu.lu) [000516 16:51]:
quoted
For the former (2.2.12 kernel), I got the ide-2.2.12 patch form Andre
Hedrick (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick)
and applied the patch from Michel Lanners
(http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/199909/msg00146.html)
Forget about these old patches. Go to my PCI page:
http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/pci.html
and get yourself my latest patches for either 2.2.15 (kernel.org) or
2.3.99-pre7 (linuxcare.au) kernels. For 2.2.15, you need Andre's patches
in addition to mine. Apply his IDE patches first.
Great! It's working without a hitch (but with a few kernel args!).
I have to say that I can't put my card in slot 3 or 4, but only in 1 or
2. Not an issue for me but you may want to know ...
Also, the Promise Card is the only one IDE controller on my Mac, but it
gets detected at ide2 and ide3. Not an isssue for me neither :-)
Thanks for your work! I'll post instructions on linuxppc-user ...
Cheers,
Simon
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Hi Simon,
On 24 May, this message from Simon Piette echoed through cyberspace:
[about the promise/66 in a Mac]
quoted
Forget about these old patches. Go to my PCI page:
http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/pci.html
and get yourself my latest patches for either 2.2.15 (kernel.org) or
2.3.99-pre7 (linuxcare.au) kernels. For 2.2.15, you need Andre's patches
in addition to mine. Apply his IDE patches first.
To all those interested: there are new patches up for 2.2.15; I screwed
up with the older ones. Went back to an old version of my PCI patches.
Damn ;-)
Great! It's working without a hitch (but with a few kernel args!).
Which ones are those? I need none; I could do with idebus=xx for bus
frequency; but the default is ok...
I have to say that I can't put my card in slot 3 or 4, but only in 1 or
2. Not an issue for me but you may want to know ...
What was your machine again? There might be an issue either with bus
mastering (some brain-dead designs don't allow bus masters in all slots;
the Promise is a bus master) or with multiple PCI buses. In the first
case there's nothing you can do; in the second case I might have screwed
up my patches....
Also, the Promise Card is the only one IDE controller on my Mac, but it
gets detected at ide2 and ide3. Not an isssue for me neither :-)
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y in your .config; the option is 'Boot off-board
chipsets first'. I guess reserving two IDE buses that are not actually
probed is braindamaged PC legacy ;-)
Be carefull when actually activating this, as your disks will change
devices, and your /etc/fstab will be out of sync!
Thanks for your work! I'll post instructions on linuxppc-user ...
You're welcome ;-)
Michel
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