From owner-rawio@oss.sgi.com Tue Dec 12 07:07:04 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:06:54 -0800 Received: from [193.120.246.5] ([193.120.246.5]:34016 "EHLO best.eurologic.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:06:45 -0800 Received: from eurologic.com (dhcp-08 [192.168.7.108]) by best.eurologic.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02331 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:08:42 GMT Message-ID: <3A363F76.65646058@eurologic.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:08:38 +0000 From: Chris Farey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rawio@oss.sgi.com Subject: What is current status of rawio patches References: <20001212150303Z553809-487+410@oss.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-rawio@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;rawio-outgoing What is the current status of the SGI rawio patches? The most recent patch is several months old; are there patches available for the 2.4.0-testN kernels? Also, is there a mailing list archive? Chris Farey cfarey@eurologic.com From owner-rawio@oss.sgi.com Tue Dec 12 09:17:03 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:16:54 -0800 Received: from adsl-63-194-89-126.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.194.89.126]:12810 "HELO skull.piratehaven.org") by oss.sgi.com with SMTP id ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:16:31 -0800 Received: (qmail 31809 invoked by uid 1012); 12 Dec 2000 17:11:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:11:44 -0800 From: Brian Pomerantz To: rawio@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: What is current status of rawio patches Message-ID: <20001212091144.A31621@skull.piratehaven.org> Mail-Followup-To: rawio@oss.sgi.com References: <20001212150303Z553809-487+410@oss.sgi.com> <3A363F76.65646058@eurologic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us In-Reply-To: <3A363F76.65646058@eurologic.com> X-homepage: http://www.piratehaven.org/~bapper/ Sender: owner-rawio@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;rawio-outgoing On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 03:08:38PM +0000, Chris Farey wrote: > > > What is the current status of the SGI rawio patches? The most recent patch is > several months old; are there patches available for the 2.4.0-testN kernels? > > Also, is there a mailing list archive? > I don't know about what SGI is doing but the old patches, or at least the code that gets added to sd.c, should work fine with the latest kernels. I have had it running on 2.2.17 and will soon try 2.2.18. Just make sure you have the latest Stephen Tweedy patches because the SGI raw I/O uses this stuff. BAPper From owner-rawio@oss.sgi.com Fri Dec 15 06:16:23 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 06:16:13 -0800 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.103]:39047 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 06:16:04 -0800 Received: from northrelay02.pok.ibm.com (northrelay02.pok.ibm.com [9.117.200.22]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA217492 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:15:18 -0500 Received: from d02ml249.somers.hqregion.ibm.com (d02ml249.sby.ibm.com [9.45.4.177]) by northrelay02.pok.ibm.com (8.8.8m3/NCO v4.95) with ESMTP id JAA89730 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:14:01 -0500 Importance: Normal Subject: Raw io support in the kernel To: rawio@oss.sgi.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 March 21, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Drew A Croker" Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:19:04 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D02ML249/02/M/IBM(Build V506_11152000 |November 15, 2000) at 12/15/2000 09:16:01 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-rawio@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;rawio-outgoing Are the raw io enhancements in the 2.3/2.4test kernels? Will they ever be seen in the 2.2 kernels? Thanks, Drew Croker System Test Engineer WebSphere Edge Server IBM Transarc Lab