Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:13:20 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 34/78] atari_NCR5380: Use arbitration timeout | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Finn,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> > In principle I think that Linux drivers should not carry workarounds >> > for emulators. >> >> Please consider ARAnyM is the current m68k workhorse, so it would be >> nice to handle this someway. > > AFAICT atari_scsi on aranym never did anything useful. Those aranym users > who need to run Linux 4.5 can set CONFIG_ATARI_SCSI=n or blacklist the > atari_scsi module (up until aranym can be patched).
FTR. adding "initcall_blacklist=atari_scsi_driver_init" to the kernel command line makes it boot again.
>> Alternatively, we need to fix ARAnyM, > > I'll look into writing a patch for the emulator after I've finished > testing the exception handling fixes for the driver.
Thank you!
>> or can make the creation of the atari_scsi platform device conditional >> on not running under ARAnyM. > > Fixing the emulator is the only sensible approach. If S operating systems > have to carry workarounds for B emulator bugs, the cost is (at least) > proportional to S * B.
Sure.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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