FS#4990 - Kernel oops with Promise PATA in 2.6.17

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Saturday, 08 July 2006, 04:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It would seem that patching sata_promsie to support PATA ports currently borks the entire driver for most people using it. I know that at least one other person is having this issue with the new Arch kernel and thus I'm suggesting the Arch kernel no longer patch for Promise PATA support until the patch is updated to correct this issue. Upstream devs are aware of this issue but don't have a solution yet and did not seem willing to offer any estimates on how long a fix would take.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 10 March 2007, 07:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 09 July 2006, 07:31 GMT
would you please try 2.6.18-rc1?
http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/2.6.18/
there the patch doesn't apply anymore and it seems they added a function to detect the pata if available, thanks
greetings
tpowa
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 00:05 GMT
Can you provide a PKGBUILD? My Arch system is currently running the x86_64 port.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 06:15 GMT
http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/2.6.18/PKGBUILD/
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 18:19 GMT
Thanks for the links. Guess it should have been obvious.

I built the kernel without any problems and while it works, no oops when booting with my promise controller, it doesn't find the PATA channels on the controller. At least not on this controller.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Saturday, 22 July 2006, 14:20 GMT
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/trunk/2.6.17/4135_promise-pdc2037x.patch

give this a shot. from genpatches, so it should be pretty stable, sane and safe to include.

also, out of curiosity, does it work on the latest beyond package, 2.1 or 2.2?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 16:12 GMT
is this now solved with 2.6.18?
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 16:24 GMT
I'll test with 2.6.18 when it builds (running x86_64). I tried that genpatches patch and it didn't work with my controller. It caused a kernel panic when pata drives were connected.
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 17:26 GMT
This problem still exists with 2.6.18-rc6 built using the PKGBUILD found at http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa. No PATA discs are found attached to the Promise controller.
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 17:38 GMT
I just tried 2.6.17-beyond3 and still no good. I can get this to work with 2.6.16 series kernels and the patch from Fedora. I'm going to start looking through code to see if I can figure out what breaks between that patch and the genpatches one.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 05 November 2006, 07:32 GMT
is this fixed in 2.6.18.2 stock kernel?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 02 December 2006, 15:40 GMT
is this fixed now in .19 kernel?
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Saturday, 02 December 2006, 16:31 GMT
I'll test today or tomorrow and report back.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 15:27 GMT
status on this one?
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Sunday, 10 December 2006, 21:46 GMT
I no longer get any sort of panic but PATA drives are not detected when attached to this controller. This is using stock kernel from testing with no changes.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 06 February 2007, 13:45 GMT
again, how is .20 kernel going?
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 19:38 GMT
I'm getting the same results as with 2.6.18-2.6.19 kernels. It's not causing any problems but the controllers isn't detected PATA drives that are attached. When I get a few free hours I'm going to try patching with a patch I found on Fedora CVS and see if it resolves the issue.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Thursday, 22 February 2007, 21:38 GMT
again, how is 2.6.20 going?
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Friday, 23 February 2007, 05:06 GMT
See the above comment.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 10 March 2007, 07:58 GMT
it is fixed in new 2.6.20.2 kernel, yeeha

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