Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750861AbVIFUhG (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:37:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750895AbVIFUhG (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:37:06 -0400 Received: from ns1.coraid.com ([65.14.39.133]:12534 "EHLO coraid.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861AbVIFUhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:37:05 -0400 To: Jim MacBaine Cc: "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: aoe fails on sparc64 References: <3afbacad0508310630797f397d@mail.gmail.com> <87vf1mm7fk.fsf@coraid.com> <20050831.232430.50551657.davem@davemloft.net> <87k6i0bnyn.fsf@coraid.com> <3afbacad05090309064b3cad87@mail.gmail.com> From: Ed L Cashin Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:31:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3afbacad05090309064b3cad87@mail.gmail.com> (Jim MacBaine's message of "Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:06:33 +0200") Message-ID: <87ll2agcq0.fsf@coraid.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1257 Lines: 32 Jim MacBaine writes: > On 9/1/05, Ed L Cashin wrote: > >> The aoe driver looks OK, but it turns out there's a byte swapping bug >> in the vblade that could be related if he's running the vblade on a >> big endian host (even though he said it was an x86 host), but I >> haven't heard back from the original poster yet. > > It is in fact a x86_64 kernel, but with a mostly x86 userland. Vblade > is pure x86 code. > >> The vblade bug was the omission of swapping the bytes in each short. >> The fix below shows what I mean: > > Unfortunately it doesn't fix anything here. The client still reports > the same wrong size as before. The dmesg output is identical, too. Let's take this discussion off the lkml, because I doubt there's a problem with the aoe driver in the kernel, and I can easily follow up to the lkml with a synopsis if it turns out I'm wrong. Jim MacBaine, I'm going to ask for more details in a separate email. -- Ed L Cashin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/