Comment 37 for bug 372170

Revision history for this message
Giuseppe Iuculano (giuseppe-iuculano) wrote : Re: [Bug 372170] Re: intel isw raid metadata at odd offset

Hi Robert,

Robert Collins ha scritto:
> So, I may have been writing an hpa interpreter.
>
> Could you try with my patch, with and without 'libata.ignore_hpa=0' ?

For the HPA issue, Tejun Heo wrote[1] a patch but upstream never commented it.
He works on his NV raid, but I think make isw use the new alt_size he
implemented, shouldn't be too complicated. Perhaps you could take a look...

[1]http://lwn.net/Articles/317492/
   http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4950/
   http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4952/
   http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4951/

Cheers,
Giuseppe.