Bug 12190 (IPS-PPC) - kernel 2.6 PPC64 - IPS driver failure with IBM ServeRAID 4H
Summary: kernel 2.6 PPC64 - IPS driver failure with IBM ServeRAID 4H
Status: CLOSED OBSOLETE
Alias: IPS-PPC
Product: SCSI Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: scsi_drivers-other
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Reported: 2008-12-10 02:33 UTC by Alexey
Modified: 2012-05-30 11:30 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.18-6-powerpc64
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Regression: No
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Description Alexey 2008-12-10 02:33:53 UTC 
Latest working kernel version: NONE
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.18-6-powerpc64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 26 17:58:12 UTC 2008 ppc64 unknown
Distribution: Debian Etch (4.0)
Hardware Environment: IBM 7025-6F0
Software Environment: Installing Debian 4.0 (Etch), latest stable release as of 10-DEC-2008
Problem Description:
IPS driver fails to load, following is recorded in dmesg:
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PCI: Enabling device: (0001:2a:01.0), cmd 143
ips 0001:2a:01.0: Unable to initialize controller
ips: probe of 0001:2a:01.0 failed with error -1
ips 0001:2a:01.0: Couldn't allocate IO space 18ec00 len 256.
ips: probe of 0001:2a:01.0 failed with error -1
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lspci -v output:
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0001:2a:01.0 RAID bus controller: IBM SCSI RAID Adapter [ServeRAID] (rev 10)
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 022e
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 42
I/O ports at fefff8ec00 [size=256]
Memory at ff38000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at ff38100000 [disabled] [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
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Steps to reproduce:
Load IPS driver (modprobe ips) on either IBM 7025-6F0 (64-bit arch & kernel) or IBM 7025-F50 (32-bit arch & kernel) machine.

Note: this bug has been recorded at Debian Bugzilla with bug#375092
Comment 1 Alan 2012-05-30 11:30:52 UTC 
Closing as obsolete given the ancient kernel version

If this is seen with a modern kernel please re-open
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