On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:57:34PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >  > Known problem:
> >  > http://www.nabble.com/LSI:-avoid-infinite-loops-p17116605.html
> > 
> >  > Windows driver has scripts code which busy loops on main memory. Since
> >  > that executes in vcpu context, the cpu won't ever get a chance to change
> >  > the variable which the SCSI emulation is looping at.
> > 
> > Thanks Marcelo (and Alberto) for pointing me at this.
> > 
> >  > The proposed hack, however, is half-assed (see Paul Brook's comments on
> >  > that thread).
> > 
> > I'd be willing to take a stab at a better fix.  
> 
> Awesome! That would be very welcome. It is quite important for
> better-than-IDE performance with Windows guests.
> 
> > Is there any documentation about the lsi microcode engine anywhere?
> 
> http://www.lsi.com/files/docs/techdocs/storage_stand_prod/SCSIControllers/56_3.pdf

http://www.lsi.com/files/docs/techdocs/storage_stand_prod/SCSIControllers/53c896_3.pdf
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