Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:22:44 -0600 | From | JP Navarro <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers |
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Miles Lane wrote: ... > Are you saying that this is a hardware bug that is impossible to > develop a work-around for in the kernel? If this is just a bug, > shouldn't we try to fix it rather than avoid it?
This is hardware behaving as designed but not supported by the kernel. IBM was aware of the problem and working on a solution. Since the offending hardware is a PCI card that is useless under Linux. The simple solution is to remove it.
If IBM wants these cards to work with Linux they should do a lot more than supply patches that keep the kernel from crashing. At a minimum, publish specs so someone else can patch the kernel and write drivers to make full use of the card's features under Linux. We're still hoping.
> If you have detailed information about the interrupt problem, > perhaps you could send it to the list and see if a fix is possible.
Wish I could have. Our machines would totally freeze.
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