[RFC v4 03/25] m68k/atari: Move Atari-specific code out of drivers/char/nvram.c

Christian T. Steigies cts at debian.org
Thu Jul 23 00:32:27 AEST 2015


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:22:21PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > Hi Finn,
> > 
> > I'm afraid I cannot test anything on Atari hardware at present - my 
> > Falcon ate it's IDE disk partition table with all the fun that entails. 
> 
> That doesn't sound good.
> 
> > Haven't even begun to try and recover that yet.
> > 
> > If you send a patch I could build a kernel and send that to Christian 
> > for testing (if he's got his Falcon up and running - might be a tad warm 
> > in the attic for that, in fact).
> 
> Anyone with a suitable Atari, i.e. ATARIHW_PRESENT(TT_CLK), who can boot 
> both TOS and Linux could resolve the question. (Perhaps with an emulator?)

The Falcon is not powered on currently but it should still work. What should
I test?

> Any old kernel binary would do, since atari_scsi should print either 
> "HOSTID=n" or "this_id n" at startup.
> 
> If n doesn't agree with what TOS says about the host's SCSI ID, then I 
> think a trivial patch is safe enough. Especially if cat /proc/driver/nvram 
> produces a "SCSI host ID : m" that does agree with TOS.

Christian


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