sym scsi driver problem with 2.6.26 or newer debian kernel on p610 (fwd)

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 09:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 07:57 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > I tried on a POWER3 box I have here "IBM,7044-170" and things work fine
> > > here with current upstream. (I suspect a much smaller machine).
> > > 
> > > I will really need an actual bisection here... In the meantime, I'll see
> > > if I can get my hand on one of these machines here.
> > 
> > Ok so I think we may have found it... looks like
> > CONFIG_MPIC_BROKEN_REGREAD is what breaks it which is enabled by PA-Semi
> > support in the .config.
> > 
> > Can you verify that disabling PA-Semi support removes that option from
> > your .config and that once removed, it works again ?
> > 
> > We don't know yet -why- it breaks it, still investigating.
> 
> Do the following patch also fix it ?

Doesn't fix my machine :/

cheers

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