Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2018-02-23 Thread Brian King
On 02/22/2018 06:16 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: > Michael Ellerman writes: >> Brian King writes: >>> On 09/03/2017 06:19 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: Michael Ellerman writes: >> 2. On a bare metal machine, if you set

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2018-02-22 Thread Stewart Smith
Michael Ellerman writes: > Brian King writes: >> On 09/03/2017 06:19 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: >>> Michael Ellerman writes: > 2. On a bare metal machine, if you set ipr.fast_reboot=1 on the skiboot >kernel, then we

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2018-02-22 Thread Michael Ellerman
Brian King writes: > On 09/03/2017 06:19 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: >> Michael Ellerman writes: 2. On a bare metal machine, if you set ipr.fast_reboot=1 on the skiboot kernel, then we should also avoid resetting the ipr adapter, so ipr

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-09-06 Thread Brian King
On 09/03/2017 06:19 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: > Michael Ellerman writes: >>> 2. On a bare metal machine, if you set ipr.fast_reboot=1 on the skiboot >>>kernel, then we should also avoid resetting the ipr adapter, so ipr >>>init on the kernel being kexec booted from

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-09-03 Thread Stewart Smith
Michael Ellerman writes: >> 2. On a bare metal machine, if you set ipr.fast_reboot=1 on the skiboot >>kernel, then we should also avoid resetting the ipr adapter, so ipr >>init on the kernel being kexec booted from skiboot should be extremely >> fast. > > OK, I

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-31 Thread Michael Ellerman
Brian King writes: > On 08/31/2017 07:37 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> Stewart Smith writes: >> >>> Michael Ellerman writes: OK. So maybe when the petitboot kernel moves up to 4.14 they may want to flip it

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-31 Thread Brian King
On 08/31/2017 07:37 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Stewart Smith writes: > >> Michael Ellerman writes: >>> OK. So maybe when the petitboot kernel moves up to 4.14 they may want to >>> flip it back to being a module. >> >> Yeah. We tend to keep all

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-31 Thread Michael Ellerman
Stewart Smith writes: > Michael Ellerman writes: >> OK. So maybe when the petitboot kernel moves up to 4.14 they may want to >> flip it back to being a module. > > Yeah. We tend to keep all RAID adapters as modules because they almost > all

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-31 Thread Stewart Smith
Michael Ellerman writes: > OK. So maybe when the petitboot kernel moves up to 4.14 they may want to > flip it back to being a module. Yeah. We tend to keep all RAID adapters as modules because they almost all uniquely try to undo all boot time optimization done by anybody,

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-30 Thread Guilherme G. Piccoli
On 08/30/2017 08:07 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >[...] > OK. So maybe when the petitboot kernel moves up to 4.14 they may want to > flip it back to being a module. > OK, I'll be tuned! Thanks > I think the majority of machines that have one of these adapters will be > using it for their root

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-30 Thread Michael Ellerman
"Guilherme G. Piccoli" writes: > On 08/29/2017 08:22 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> "Guilherme G. Piccoli" writes: >> >>> On 08/28/2017 02:56 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: Some Power9 boxes will have this adapter installed, so add it

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-29 Thread Guilherme G. Piccoli
On 08/29/2017 08:22 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > "Guilherme G. Piccoli" writes: > >> On 08/28/2017 02:56 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >>> Some Power9 boxes will have this adapter installed, so add it to the >>> defconfig so we can boot on those machines without an

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-29 Thread Michael Ellerman
"Guilherme G. Piccoli" writes: > On 08/28/2017 02:56 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> Some Power9 boxes will have this adapter installed, so add it to the >> defconfig so we can boot on those machines without an initrd. > > Michael, not sure if this affects Petitboot

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-28 Thread Guilherme G. Piccoli
On 08/28/2017 02:56 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Some Power9 boxes will have this adapter installed, so add it to the > defconfig so we can boot on those machines without an initrd. Michael, not sure if this affects Petitboot (I know it has its own default config files), but in the past we had

[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Turn on SCSI_AACRAID in powernv_defconfig

2017-08-27 Thread Michael Ellerman
Some Power9 boxes will have this adapter installed, so add it to the defconfig so we can boot on those machines without an initrd. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- arch/powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git