Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Finn, On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Finn Thain wrote: >> it's probably not Geert but James who needs to give the go-ahead. > > Given Geert's objections to the changes under arch/m68k in v1, I'm hoping > for an acked-by from Geert for v2... I'm happy with the arch/m68k changes in v2 (modulo

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-06 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Michael Schmitz wrote: > it's probably not Geert but James who needs to give the go-ahead. Given Geert's objections to the changes under arch/m68k in v1, I'm hoping for an acked-by from Geert for v2... -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Finn, >> Leaves the current instability - I did some work on the CT60 accelerator >> (reflashed the firmware so I can use the CTPCI board). This might have >> caused the system to become more unstable. Needs more investigation. > > I gather from the emails we've exchanged that the "current" ins

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-05 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Leaves the current instability - I did some work on the CT60 accelerator > (reflashed the firmware so I can use the CTPCI board). This might have > caused the system to become more unstable. Needs more investigation. I gather from the emails we've e

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
David, Geert, my Falcon has some variant of this clock patch installed - it may not be precisely the one described but reasonably close. It also has one of the old 030 accelerator tricks (clock doubling of the 030 if the CPU does not do bus cycles - named Skunk) fitted; the clock patch was install

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:56 AM, David Gálvez wrote: > Do you know about the Falcon's disturbance in the SDMA clock signal > hardware problem? > Most Falcons, specially those used in music studios, have a hardware > patch to fix this, it's normally called SCSI patch. > > Some more info: > > http://

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-04 Thread David Gálvez
2014-11-05 0:36 GMT+01:00 Michael Schmitz : > Hi Finn, > > >> Thanks for testing. >> >> "No regressions over v1" means "no regressions", right? >> >> >> >> Well, what would I compare the driver performance to? With your patches to >> sort out locking races, the driver is more stable than I've ever

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Finn, > Thanks for testing. > > "No regressions over v1" means "no regressions", right? > > > > Well, what would I compare the driver performance to? With your patches to > sort out locking races, the driver is more stable than I've ever seen it in > years. That's a definite win. Big improveme

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-01 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Tested atari_scsi on Falcon / CT60 hardware - no regressions over v1 > that I've seen. > > Tested-by: Michael Schmitz > Thanks for testing. "No regressions over v1" means "no regressions", right? -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-11-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
Finn, This patch series has fixes for bugs and compiler warnings as well as code cleanup and modernization. It covers all ten NCR5380 drivers and the three core NCR5380 drivers so it's fairly large. These patches remove a lot of duplicated code and C pre-processor abuse. There are also patches f

[PATCH v2 00/36] Fixes, cleanups and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

2014-10-27 Thread Finn Thain
This patch series has fixes for bugs and compiler warnings as well as code cleanup and modernization. It covers all ten NCR5380 drivers and the three core NCR5380 drivers so it's fairly large. These patches remove a lot of duplicated code and C pre-processor abuse. There are also patches for scsi