Re: SATA error initializing Marvell 88SX6081

2013-02-07 Thread James C. Georgas
> When using the sata_mv driver, I can't see my drives. > > The drives are SATA6Gbps. > > The SATA card is a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA3Gbps card with a Marvell > 88SX6081 chip onboard. Never mind, old kernel. Fixed in 3.7.6. Sorry for the noise. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

BMC on Tyan s2885

2013-01-01 Thread James C. Georgas
Does anyone know if the Tyan Thunder K8W (s2885) has a BMC controller for IPMI management on board? If it does, what do I have to enable in the kernel to use it? Cheers, James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@

Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: fix pseudo dependency between K8_NUMA and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA config options

2007-09-09 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 15:46 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Thanks. How about a fix for the other problem (ACPI_NUMA- PM) too? > I don't want to just hard-select it until I understand what happened between 2.6.22.6 and current git to make ACPI selectable without PM. Personally, I think ACPI should b

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-09 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 22:00 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > For example, you would only need to specify one "select" directive in > > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, (i.e. to turn on ACPI_NUMA). The configuration system > > would then recursively walk up ACPI_NUMA's dependency hierarchy, turning > > on what it ne

[PATCH] KCONFIG: fix pseudo dependency between K8_NUMA and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA config options

2007-09-09 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "James C. Georgas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It's 2.6.22.6. I'm thinking a fix would be to add "select PM" to > > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA. > > > > I'm also thinking

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > 2.6.23-rc5-git1 builds for me when I follow those steps... > except for some Section mismatch warnings. > OK, it worked for me also, using torvalds/linux-2.6.git. The behaviour of the "select" directive in Kconfig appears to have changed s

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:09:04 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:51:39 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > > > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > >

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:09 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:51:39 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > > automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes > > ACPI_N

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:51 -0400, James C. Georgas wrote: > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes > ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and the kernel compile fails with unresolved > symbols

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:51 -0400, James C. Georgas wrote: > Steps to reproduce: > > make clean > make mrproper > make noallconfig Excuse me; that should read allnoconfig, not noallconfig. James /\V - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and the kernel compile fails with unresolved symbols. Steps to reproduce: make clean make mrproper make noallco

HIMEM calculation

2007-09-03 Thread James C. Georgas
I'm not sure I understand how the kernel calculates the amount of physical RAM it can map during the boot process. I've quoted two blocks of kernel messages below, one for a kernel with NOHIGHMEM and another for a kernel with HIGHMEM4G. If I do the math on the BIOS provided physical RAM map, ther

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread James C Georgas
On Tue, 2006-26-12 at 03:20 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > On 12/25/06, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I bought the car from the manufacturer, it also must > > include any rights the manufacturer might have to the car's use. > > That includes using the car to violate emissi

RE: Binary Drivers

2006-12-24 Thread James C Georgas
On Sun, 2006-24-12 at 09:33 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:19:09 PST, David Schwartz said: > > > > You can't sell something that doesn't exist. If you sell a car > > > even though > > > you can't explain how anyone could drive it, that's fraud. > > > Are they allowed to s

Re: Freeing a dynamic struct cdev

2005-08-06 Thread James C. Georgas
but cdev_del() accomplishes both tasks in one function, with the kobj_unmap() part having no effect, if the cdev is not mapped at the time of the call. -- James C. Georgas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Freeing a dynamic struct cdev

2005-08-06 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 12:21 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:26:15 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > If I allocate a struct cdev using cdev_alloc(), what function do I call > > to free it when I'm done with it? > > Should be cdev_put(), whi

Inclusion order patch

2005-08-05 Thread James C. Georgas
+#include +#include + +struct inode; + struct cdev { struct kobject kobj; struct module *owner; -- James C. Georgas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

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2005-08-05 Thread James C. Georgas
0 -0400 +++ linux/include/linux/cdev.h 2005-08-05 21:41:39.0 -0400 @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ #define _LINUX_CDEV_H #ifdef __KERNEL__ +#include +#include +#include + +struct inode; + struct cdev { struct kobject kobj; struct module *owner; -- James C. Georgas <[EMAIL