On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Khalid Aziz wrote: > > Khalid: I have skimmed over these documents and I infer 24-bit addressing > > can be verified with any MultiMaster adapter, including ones that do have > > 32-bit addressing implemented, by using the legacy Initialize Mailbox HBA > > command. That could be used to stop Christoph's recent changes for older > > adapter support removal and replace them with proper fixes for whatever > > has become broken. Is that something you'd be willing as the driver's > > maintainer to look into, or shall I? > > Do you mean use OpCode 01 (INITIALIZE MAILBOX) to set a 24-bit address > for mailbox in place of OpCode 81? Verifying the change would be a > challenge. Do you have an old adapter to test it with? If you do, go > ahead and make the changes. I will be happy to review. I have only a > BT-757 adapter. Yes, but upon inspection it looks like our driver doesn't use that opcode and relies solely on 32-bit Mode Initialize Mailbox (0x81) even with ISA devices. That makes sense as documentation indicates the firmware has been designed to be unified so that the same binary microcontroller code runs across all BusLogic MultiMaster devices. Anyway given the unified API it should be straightforward to simulate an older adapter with a newer one, except for host bus protocol differences. So verifying the workaround for broken BT-445S adapters continues to work once modernised is not going to be a problem as it can be unconditionally activated in a debug environment. That would verify correct DMA bounce buffer operation under the new scheme. Verifying actual ISA operations (third-party DMA, etc.) cannot be made this way, but as I understand the issue there is merely with passing data structures around and that may not require too much attention beyond getting things syntactically correct, which I gather someone forgot to do with a change made a while ago. So that should be doable as well. NB as noted before I only have a BT-958 readily wired for operation. I don't expect I have any other BusLogic hardware, but I may yet have to double-check a stash of hardware I have accumulated over the years. But that is overseas, so I won't be able to get at it before we're at least somewhat closer to normality. If all else fails I could possibly buy one. I have respun the series now as promised. Does your BT-757 adapter avoid the issue with trailing allocation somehow? Maciej
