Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: aoe fails on sparc64 | From | Ed L Cashin <> | Date | Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:31:19 -0400 |
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Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com> writes:
> On 9/1/05, Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> wrote: > >> The aoe driver looks OK, but it turns out there's a byte swapping bug >> in the vblade that could be related if he's running the vblade on a >> big endian host (even though he said it was an x86 host), but I >> haven't heard back from the original poster yet. > > It is in fact a x86_64 kernel, but with a mostly x86 userland. Vblade > is pure x86 code. > >> The vblade bug was the omission of swapping the bytes in each short. >> The fix below shows what I mean: > > Unfortunately it doesn't fix anything here. The client still reports > the same wrong size as before. The dmesg output is identical, too.
Let's take this discussion off the lkml, because I doubt there's a problem with the aoe driver in the kernel, and I can easily follow up to the lkml with a synopsis if it turns out I'm wrong.
Jim MacBaine, I'm going to ask for more details in a separate email.
-- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
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