On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:47:11AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > > >>Meanwhile, I just booted 2.6.17-rc5-git1 (latest kernel.org) on my Mac G3 > >>box here, and sata_mv seems to be behaving for me (thus far). > > > >Mmm, this is a G3, while i have a G4. The G4 does some I/O reordering, > >which > >we don't have with a G3, so this may be the cause. > > MMmm.. is your G4 using a 64-bit kernel, or a 32-bit kernel? Ah, no, the G4 is a 32bit processor. > The driver is a complete unknown (for me, at least) on 64-bit systems, > as I don't have one (of any processor type) here yet. I have an Xserve G5, which is a 64bit powerpc machine, and i could try it in it. I need to get the fans to a usable level first though, as it sounds like an airplan, and is sitting right beside my desk. > >Do you have a mac version of the board, with a forth/OF bios in it ? Or a > >normal PC card, which is thus uninitialized ? > > The board claims to be "mac" compatible, so it probably has an OF bios on > it, but I have not verified this yet. Yes, probably. This could mean that the board gets initialized for you, but not for me. Friendly, Sven Luther - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
