On 28/06/16 00:18, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:38 AM, <alexmcwhirter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2016-06-27 08:23, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> >>> If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you. >> >> >> For what it's worth, I've been using libata on sparc64 for roughly two years >> with no issues to report. All of my PATA machines have ALI controllers, not >> sure if any other controllers were ever used in sparc gear. > > The Ultra 5 uses a CMD64x controller. > > That said, last time I tried to get that machine working, I couldn't > partition the disk due to bugs in that driver. > > I believe the Ultra 10 uses the same motherboard so it's likely also > affected. I believe these were in the first generation of "PC" like > SPARC workstations. FWIW QEMU's qemu-system-sparc64 emulator also uses the cmd646 controller and can boot vmlinuz/initrd binaries directly for testing. ATB, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
