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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFT](2) minimal rmap for 2.5 - akpm tested
On Thu, Jul 11 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 08:47, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > ...I'd be testing right
> > > now to see if you're right, if the DAC960 driver compiled successfully.
> > > But it doesn't, and since my test machine won't boot without it... given a
> > > choice between diving into the driver and going back to work on directory
> > > hashing on 2.4...
> >
> > Leonard has promised me to convert DAC960 to the "new" pci dma api for
> > years (or so it seems, actual date may vary, no purchase necessary). I
> > do have a Mylex controller here myself these days, so it's not
> > completely impossible that I may do it on a rainy day.
>
> Well, tell me what the new api is and I'll dive in there. For the record,

Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt. Also, DAC960 initial bio conversion
happened before the interface was finalized, so it may need changes in
that regard as well. Documentation/block/biodoc.txt is your friend there
:-)

a quick make drivers/block/DAC960.o shows the following stuff needs
changing immediately:

1) q->queue_lock is a pointer to a lock, not the lock itself. Probably
add a per-controller spinlock to DAC960_Controller_T, and pass that to
blk_init_queue(). Then change DAC960_AcquireControllerLock and friends
in DAC960.h accordingly.

2) wrt DMA mapping, see DAC960_BA_WriteHardwareMailbox
(Virtual_to_Bus64, anyone?)...

And probably lots more will unearth once you start tackling it...

> I wouldn't be surprised if some other little things have rotted as well.

Heh, not at all :-)

--
Jens Axboe

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