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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960 b/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960 index 0e8f618..bd85fb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960 +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960 @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ replacing "/usr/src" with wherever you keep your Linux kernel source tree: make config make bzImage (or zImage) -Then install "arch/i386/boot/bzImage" or "arch/i386/boot/zImage" as your +Then install "arch/x86/boot/bzImage" or "arch/x86/boot/zImage" as your standard kernel, run lilo if appropriate, and reboot. To create the necessary devices in /dev, the "make_rd" script included in diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt index c00c6a5..b79d0a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt @@ -78,6 +78,16 @@ The device naming scheme is: /dev/cciss/c1d1p2 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 2 /dev/cciss/c1d1p3 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 3 +CCISS simple mode support +------------------------- + +The "cciss_simple_mode=1" boot parameter may be used to prevent the driver +from putting the controller into "performant" mode. The difference is that +with simple mode, each command completion requires an interrupt, while with +"performant mode" (the default, and ordinarily better performing) it is +possible to have multiple command completions indicated by a single +interrupt. + SCSI tape drive and medium changer support ------------------------------------------ @@ -88,14 +98,12 @@ You must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and "SCSI support" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI tape drives with your Smart Array 5xxx controller. -Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init -time. The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via -the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as -/proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is because at driver init time, -the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block -driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case -would cause a hang. This is best done via an initialization script -(typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distribution). +Additionally, note that the driver will engage the SCSI core at init +time if any tape drives or medium changers are detected. The driver may +also be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem +entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as +/proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is best done via a script. + For example: for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]* diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt index 6c820ba..fa72e97 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt @@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ the RAM disk dynamically grows as data is being written into it, a size field is not required. Bits 11 to 13 are not currently used and may as well be zero. These numbers are no magical secrets, as seen below: -./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF -./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000 -./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_LOAD_FLAG 0x4000 +./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF +./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000 +./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_LOAD_FLAG 0x4000 Consider a typical two floppy disk setup, where you will have the kernel on disk one, and have already put a RAM disk image onto disk #2. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The command line equivalent is: "prompt_ramdisk=1" Putting that together gives 2^15 + 2^14 + 0 = 49152 for an rdev word. So to create disk one of the set, you would do: - /usr/src/linux# cat arch/i386/boot/zImage > /dev/fd0 + /usr/src/linux# cat arch/x86/boot/zImage > /dev/fd0 /usr/src/linux# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 /usr/src/linux# rdev -r /dev/fd0 49152 |