From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261812AbUABAKq (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:10:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261931AbUABAKq (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:10:46 -0500 Received: from mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.160]:33681 "EHLO mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261812AbUABAKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:10:38 -0500 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.2.20040102104731.03fa6600@mail.optusnet.com.au> X-Nil: Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:08:01 +1100 To: ak@muc.de From: Leon Toh Subject: Re: Adaptec/DPT I2O Option Omitted From Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Configuration Tool Cc: Linux Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <179fQ-1iK-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <17TiY-4Pm-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <182Fy-Lx-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <18ajG-4Lz-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <18jZB-4VF-19@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 04:19 PM 30/12/2003, Andi Kleen wrote: >Leon Toh writes: > > > > I can now officially report that the dpt_i2o driver embedded in kernel > > 2.6.0 is broken. I'll highlight and bring this up through my contacts > > back at Adaptec. And hopefully we than can get some kind of official > > resolution soon. > >Also the 2.4 dpt_i2o driver is not 64bit clean and doesn't work e.g. >on AMD64. So in summary it is always pretty broken in all kernels. I totally agree with you. However at the time when this driver was written it was only intended for Intel i386 base architecture. And furthermore AMD64 wasn't even available at that stage. At this point of time I think fixing this driver for 32bit architecture now is far more important than addressing 64bit architecture, don't you agree Andi ? - Leon