[PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 10/10] bugs fix for marvell SATA on powerp c pl atform

[Jeff Garzik]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:50:46PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 12:03 +0800, Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
>> ..
>>>>> @@ -1567,13 +1570,18 @@ static void mv5_read_preamp(struct mv_ho
>>>>>  static void mv5_enable_leds(struct mv_host_priv *hpriv, void __iomem
>>>> *mmio)
>>>>>  {
>>>>>       u32 tmp;
>>>>> -
>>>>> +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC
>>>>>       writel(0, mmio + MV_GPIO_PORT_CTL);
>>>>> +#endif
>>>> You'll have to do better here too... I don't wee why when compiled on
>>>> PPC, this driver should "magically" not clear those bits... At the very
>>>> least, you should test the machine type if you want to do something
>>>> specific to your platform, but first, you'll have to convince Jeff why
>>>> this change has to be done in the first place and if there is a better
>>>> way to handle it.
>>> Correct...  it does seem some bugs were found, but #ifdef powerpc is 
>>> certainly out of the question.  We want the driver to work without 
>>> ifdefs on all platforms.
>> Yup.  I have a powerpc platform here with PCI-X, and a PCI-X Marvell card
>> to try in it.  So I'll pick up these changes and try to integrate them a
>> little more nicely in my internal updated driver, and then pass it on to Jeff.
> 
> Hi, ...
> 
> I am trying to use a Marvell 88SX5081 based card here in my pegasos machine,
> and i never got it working with the libata driver, even with the patches Zang
> provided (and 2.6.16 though, maybe i should update to a newer version). The
> marvell provided driver worked though at some time.
> 
> Would it be possible to have access to your work, in order to not duplicate
> effort or something ? 

Do you have any debug output (see top of libata.h)?

	Jeff