>>>>> "Jordan" == Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@xxxxxxx> writes: Jordan> Agreed. It sounds like there is still breakage in the BIOS - Jordan> since the reference VSA code accounts for accesses of Jordan> different alignments, but its probably not worth going back Jordan> and forth about it. Like I said, if Alan and Jeff are game, Jordan> we should go with the 5536 driver, and now that we've debated Jordan> it extensively, I'm fine with the MSR accesses - I'm satisfied Jordan> that we at least considered the alternative and dismissed it Jordan> for technically sound reasons. I'm going to post two patches. One using MSR accesses and one using PCI. Mixing the two access methods was the third option but I think that's more of an academic exercise. MSR will always work so why try poking holes in PCI config space first? The BIOS I have now exhibits one problem. The one from last week had another. Instead of trying to work around bug-du-jour I'd rather not depend on the BIOS getting things right. And it's less than a handful of register writes we're talking about here. Hardly worth it to come up with fallback heuristics for something that trivial. But both patches are working with the BIOS from yesterday. Pick your poison :) -- Martin K. Petersen http://mkp.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
