As predicted, there is a little creak in the bones this morning. Hopefully I can get back to my old schedule now, I haven’t been at work before 06:00 since before Zoë was born. Hopefully I can spend time this afternoon with 余艾蕾, I felt I neglected her yesterday.
Last Saturday Chris Quanstrom and his fiancée stopped by to meet Zoë. I got them to help move a sofa upstairs, it was a pain but we did it. Today I came into work and I have to move all kinds of furniture and system racks around to provide a path to move in some new equipment. My bones where already creaky, tomorrow is going to be pain.
As of June eighteenth, at 21:39 EDT 豆豆 is now Zoë Sigrid Heinicke. Both mother and child are doing fine, and I’m going to try to get some sleep. More detail to come within the next few days.
The last thing I did yesterday was complie the 2.6.6 I²C drivers in the 2.6.3 kernel. The first thing I did this morning was try the patch HighPoint sent me in between. It was a short modification to their code, and it works. Thanks HighPoint support and programmers.
Hopefully the fix will make it to HighPoint’s site soon. I would put the patch here, but I don’t thrust the copyright of it.
My I²C woes continued today. I have twelve SUPER X5DPA-GG systems with HighPoint RocketRAID 1820s. HighPoint provides an “OpenBuild”, currently v1.02, but this doesn’t build on Linux kernels above 2.6.3. I need I²C working because these machines are in a room with a history of AC problems. The SMBus devices on the SUPER X5DPA-GG don’t work with the I²C drivers from the 2.6.3 kernel, but with the 2.6.6 kernel do.
After I submitted a support request to HighPoint, I set of finding my own solution. I got lucky. I simply replaced the I2C directory in the 2.6.3 kernel source tree with the one from the 2.6.6 kernel. Reconfigure and rebuilt the kernel, and it works like a charm!
I hope HighPoint gets back with a new driver. Hopefully this time they will open source it and not just “OpenBuild” it. Whatever “OpenBuild” means. I might of tried to fix it myself if it was open source.
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