Re: Cyberstorm SCSI

[Rene B. <re...@we...>]

On 2002.08.08 21:49 Ken Tyler wrote:
> > Thats interesting. This does not happen on my machine, maybe its
> relatet
> > by some other hardware you use. But for freeing some of the dma memory
> > pci_free_consistent is used, I'll "ifdef" it out and replace it by some
> > other.
> 
> I think its because I have no PCI or PCI_PERMEDIA mcompiled in.


That could be the reason.


> ___dma_getp has an #ifdef CONFIG_AMIGA that forces the use of
> __get_free_pages (via a #define) instead of pci_get_consistent.
> 
> ___dma_freep always uses pci_get_consistent.


I thought it was not necessary for now to remove pci_free_consistent for 
Amiga, because its simply a wrapper for free_pages(). But this is no 
problem.


> > Can you send me a dmesg? What version of kernel do you use and have you
> 
> > compiled the 53c770 driver as module? Are you using my last update on
> > "apus_setup.c"?
> 
> A monolithic 2.4.18 kernel, I don't have your latest cache patch - I'll
> get it.
> 
> As for dmesg I don't have one at the moment because I added the needed
> free_page call in ___dma_freep and I'm running the gcc 2.95.2 compiled
> 2.4.18 test kernel at this instant. I can give you a dmesg when I return
> to my normal + 53c770 config.
> 
> The driver doesn't seem to be initialising or at least not finding the
> drive in the test kernel.


I'm wondering while ___dma_freep is called, but you don't see the chip 
initialising...


Ciao, Renè