Can you by any chance tell me how i could obtain a list of all PCI cards that are possibly supported and might work on debian sparc?
Regards, Connor On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:33 PM Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 22.06.20 17:17, Gregor Riepl wrote: > >> @all: > >> Are there any users that had success with Promise based ATA controllers > >> on UltraSPARC? > > > > As a matter of fact, I do. I had a software RAID running on 2 SATA disks > > on a Promise SATA300 TX4 controller and even built a custom mounting > > bracket for my old Ultra 10 to hold more than one disk. > > But, this was with Debian 4 (or thereabouts) and the sparc32 userland, > > and the boot disk was connected to the internal PATA controller. > > > > Not sure if this still bears much relevance. > > Well, so the driver was at least working somewhere in the past. OTOH > you're speaking about SATA, so most likely this was with another driver. > Looking at [1] the Promise SATA300 TX4 looks like a "real" SATA > controller not like older ones that were actually ATA controllers and > used some adapter chips. Maybe things also look differently with SATA. > But interesting point anyhow - SATA RAID on Ultra 10. :-) > > [1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=815&num=1 > > > > >> @Mike: > >> I wonder if your problems could be an endianness issue in the Promise > >> drivers. In the end, I assume these were mostly used on x86. I'd expect > >> it to work with the onboard ATA controller of the Ultra 5 - at least it > >> worked for me when I tried an installation on my Ultra 10 and I believe > >> the hardware used in both machines is similar to identical. That it > >> works with OpenBSD for you could be due to their development process > >> which takes into account the specifics of many different architectures. > > > > If there is any relevance to my older success story, the issue may have > > creeped in much later than kernel 2.6.18. It could also be a 32/64-bit > > issue, as the the Debian sparc kernel was 64-bit and the userland 32-bit > > back then (as far as I remember). > > Yeah, but the drivers don't depend on the userland, or do they? Maybe > the specific Promise driver for Mike's controller just broke some time > ago or was broken on UltraSPARC ever since. > > Cheers, > Frank >
