Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2 | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:20:22 +0100 |
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On Friday 27 of February 2004 23:44, you wrote: > On Fri Feb 27, 2004 at 09:14:23PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > ide-disk.c sends WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX_{EXT} without checking > > if HPA feature set is supported, this is fixed in 2.6.x for a long time. > > > > We need 2.4<->2.6 IDE sync monkey... a really smart one... > > Dunno if I qualify as sufficiently 'really smart' enough but the > last time I put in the considerable effort needed to re-sync the > 2.4 and 2.6 IDE layers, and merge in the useful -ac bits that > never made it into mainstream, nothing whatsoever came of my > efforts...
Did you actually split and send out your patches? :)
> My 2.4.x patches are in daily use by a large group of people > and they work fine, for what it is worth. My IDE merging > patches are the following: > > http://codepoet.org/kernel/ > > 020_ide_layer_2.4.22-ac4.bz2
Needs splitting and most of this stuff needs new re-sync with 2.6. :-(
> 021_ide_geom_hpa_capacity64.bz2
Now I remember why this wasn't applied. It breaks braindamaged HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl (because changes way drive->cyls is calculated). We workaround-ed it in 2.6 by removing this ioctl. :) I think we really should do the same for 2.4.
> 022-extra-ide-drives.bz2
This hack to allow > 10 interfaces is useless without additional major numbers.
> 025-cenatek.patch.bz2
IDE controller for solid state disks? Cool.
Bartlomiej
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