On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> I think you ran into this issue: > >> > >> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8098441/ > > I use NatFeat disc only, though, not the ncr controller.
There is no working ncr controller provided by aranym, just a stub for one, sufficient to fool certain operating systems. > While I agree that, in general, keeping workarounds for emulator bugs is > not desirable, there *are* workarounds for real hardware bugs, so > keeping one for a while until the emulator fixes have propagated, Well, the kernel command line workaround should meet that need, for those aranym users who use a kernel with CONFIG_ATARI_SCSI enabled. > but also something about probing a device crashing a machine (no idea > whether this affects other environments, though…) which is generally > unacceptable. > Driver probe crashes aren't surprising if the emulated device is sufficiently broken. > >See also the aranym patch I sent: > > > >https://sourceforge.net/p/aranym/bugs/40/ > >http://marc.info/?l=linux-m68k&m=145387217330168&w=2 > > > >regression caused by a kernel improvement which exposed an aranym flaw. > > Hm, true. Unfortunately, I cannot upgrade ARAnyM until I get a newer > kernel provided to Zigo’s domU (or switched to pvgrub-xen). > The aranym fix was merged upsteam by Andreas Schwab on 2016-03-20. https://sourceforge.net/p/aranym/code/ci/7af1cbfc5257d2c524ffe009790045d687c69fa5/ If you can't upgrade your emulator, why not ask the aranym maintainers to backport the fix? > >This BTS entry should be reassigned to the aranym package. It's a > > Unclear about that. Yes, there’s an emulator bug, but does that mean > there’s nothing to be done in the kernel? > You just have to pursuade one of the driver maintainers that there is a real need. Michael Schmitz and I are the maintainers for the upstream driver, and eighteen months ago he and I were in agreement: "Making the 5380 emulation a bit more complete such as in the MAME source snippet would be my preference". So that's what was done. > I will just leave that to the parties responsible. > Fair enough. -- > bye, > //mirabilos >
