> On Mar 8, 2018, at 2:04 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mike! > > On 03/08/2018 10:37 PM, Mike Tremaine wrote: >> I have sort of an odd situation, I want to test debian 9 on an Ultra 5 that >> is capable of booting* a Promise PDC20269 chipset card [Maxtor ATA/133]. The >> install does not have pdc202xx_new available and I was unsure what the best >> way was to get a Sparc64 kernel module built for it. > > If the driver is actually available/compatible on/with SPARC we can just > enable it in > the Debian Linux kernel package so it will be available in future kernel > versions. > > Did you check whether the driver is part of the official upstream kernel > sources? >
I believe it is… https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/ide/pdc202xx_new.c <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/ide/pdc202xx_new.c> I built a quick virtual machine to check the headers and I see pdc202xx_old but not _new in the x86_64 kernel. mgt@debian:/lib/modules/4.9.0-4-amd64$ ls kernel/drivers/ata/pata_pdc202* kernel/drivers/ata/pata_pdc2027x.ko kernel/drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.ko Not a huge but an interesting oddity. Once I can confirm usability I’d love to know if the other Openboot 3.x PCI sun4u can do this also. -Mike
