Hi Finn,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > In principle I think that Linux drivers should not carry workarounds
>> > for emulators.
>>
>> Please consider ARAnyM is the current m68k workhorse, so it would be
>> nice to handle this someway.
>
> AFAICT atari_scsi on aranym never did anything useful. Those aranym users
> who need to run Linux 4.5 can set CONFIG_ATARI_SCSI=n or blacklist the
> atari_scsi module (up until aranym can be patched).
FTR. adding "initcall_blacklist=atari_scsi_driver_init" to the kernel command
line makes it boot again.
>> Alternatively, we need to fix ARAnyM,
>
> I'll look into writing a patch for the emulator after I've finished
> testing the exception handling fixes for the driver.
Thank you!
>> or can make the creation of the atari_scsi platform device conditional
>> on not running under ARAnyM.
>
> Fixing the emulator is the only sensible approach. If S operating systems
> have to carry workarounds for B emulator bugs, the cost is (at least)
> proportional to S * B.
Sure.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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