Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 10:54:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 10:54:39 -0500 Received: from mail024.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.58.64]:22729 "EHLO imf24bis.bellsouth.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 10:54:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE564A4.D88D1951@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 10:54:12 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.13-2mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier CC: Linux , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SYM-2 patches against latest kernels available In-Reply-To: <20011104133028.M1354-100000@gerard> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org G?rard Roudier wrote: > The patch against linux-2.4.13 has been sent to Alan Cox for inclusion in > newer stable kernels. Alan wants to test it on his machines which is a > good thing. Anyway, those patches just add the new driver version to > kernel tree and leave stock sym53c8xx and ncr53c8xx in place. Are the older sym/ncr drivers going away in 2.5? > Any report, especially on large memory machines using 64 bit DMA (2.4 > kernels + PCI DAC capable controllers only), is welcome. I can't test 64 > bit DMA, since my fatest machine has only 512 MB of memory. > > To configure the driver, you must select "SYM53C8XX version 2 driver" from > kernel config. For large memory machines, a new "DMA addressing mode" > option is to be configured as follows (help texts have been added to > Configure.help): > > Value 0: 32 bit DMA addressing > Value 1: 40 bit DMA addressing (upper 24 bytes set to zero) > Value 2: 64 bit DMA addressing limited to 16 segments of 4 GB (64 GB) max. Are you using the new pci64 API under 2.4.x? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue. MandrakeSoft | - nomeansno - 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/