[Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Debian Linux is running in a POWER5 IBM iSeries (i5) model 9406-520

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:26:00PM +0200, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 17:13 schrieb Sven Luther:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:00:31PM +0200, David Gaya wrote:
> > > On 6/26/05, Harald G=F6rl <Harald.Goerl@rz.uni-augsburg.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi again.
> > > >
> > > > >>Harald, you said your system booted in a virtual LPAR,
> > > > >>  was that LPAR using real scsi ?
> > > > >>  or wat it using virtual scsi ?
> > > >
> > > > Both of them are working. The dump i sent in my last mail was wit=
h
> > > > using real scsi (driver "ipr").
> > > >
> > > > > Ok,; this is a bug in initrd-tools, and needs to be fixed.
> > > >
> > > > For OpenPower 720 virtual SCSI we need the driver "ibmvscsic.ko" =
loaded
> > > >
> > > > with initrd, perhaps the entry is missing as Sven wrote:
> > > > > Can you add the modules you need for your scsi device to
> > > > > /etc/mkinitrd/modules and rerun the kernel-iumage configuration=
 (dpkg
> > > > > --reconfigure kernel-image-2.6.11-pseries) in the meantime, sho=
uld
> > > > > solve your problem.
> > > >
> > > > I agree, that's what i did. Sorry not to mention this, i forgot. =
For a
> > > > vio (scsi) server i have also an entry for "ibmvscsis.ko", but th=
is is
> > > > only needed on one LPAR in a physical machine (the one serving ph=
ysical
> > > > partitions/block devices/files to partitions without "real" SCSI
> > > > hardware.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps?
> > >
> > > Yep.
> > > I added ibmvscsic to /etc/mkinitrd/modules
> > > run "dpkg-reconfigure kernel-image-2.6.11-pseries"
> > > and now it works.
> >
> > Cool, can you fill a bug against initrd-tools with this info, and ask=
ing
> > for ibmvscsic to be auto-detected ? I wonder what we need to be probe=
d to
> > detect that ibmscsic is needed ?
>=20
> ddetect/discover-rs6k.sh show how the detection works. I'm wondering wh=
y it
> is not inserted automatically for you. I didn't modify the initrd-tools=
 to=20
> have it loaded automatically after the installation.

Well, probably because he didn't use the installer, which is why it didn'=
t
work. initrd-tools needs to be fixed anyway.

Mmm, if i understand said code right, you are searching for a l-lan and v=
-scsi
named nodes in the OF tree, right ? You totally ignore device_type and
compatible though, and as i understood it, compatible should be the one u=
sed
for this kind of thing, oh well.

Can anyone of you post me a copy of your /proc/device-tree, privately and
compressed somewhere ?=20

Friendly,

Sven Luther