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Date:      Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:56:39 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Continuing saga: FreeBSD -CURRENT hangs with ATA code after April
Message-ID:  <1236048999.37252.159.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <49AC68A4.6060201@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 01:15 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 00:31 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
> >> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:20 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
> >>>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>>>> I started this thread on May 31 of last year:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-May/085923.=
html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The problem remains as of:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> FreeBSD fugu.marcuscom.com 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #12: Sun=
 Mar
> >>>>> 1 16:10:52 EST 2009
> >>>>> gnome@fugu.marcuscom.com:/space/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU  i386
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The only way I can boot this system is to hack in the ATA code from
> >>>>> April 9, 2008.  I would love just to be able to boot this guy on a
> >>>>> default -CURRENT.
> >>>> 1) If I understand right, you had working system on April 9, 2008 an=
d=20
> >>>> not working on May 31, 2008 and now. Have you tried to narrow down t=
hat=20
> >>>> interval between working and not working system to find exact point =
of=20
> >>>> breakage? I see no documented changes in Promise support there in CV=
S=20
> >>>> log, but for example, on Apr 10 2008 I see some related changes=20
> >>>> unmentioned in commit message.
> >>> The April 9 date is the documented date of last working.  It was the
> >>> commit on April 10 13:05:05 that broken things:
> >>>
> >>> "Add experimental support for SATA Port Multipliers
> >>>
> >>> Support is working on the Silicon Image SiI3124/3132.
> >>> Support is working on some AHCI chips but far from all.
> >>>
> >>> Remember this is WIP, so test reports and (constructive) suggestions =
are welcome!"
> >> You can try to comment out
> >> 	/* set portmultiplier port */
> >> 	ATA_OUTB(ctlr->r_res2, 0x4e8 + (ch->unit << 8), port & 0x0f);
> >> inside ata_promise_mio_command(). Don't know if there is some problem=20
> >> with it, but it was added at that time and looks like it is at least n=
ot=20
> >> applicable for this type of controller.
> >=20
> > That did it!  Thanks!  I can now easily post the full verbose dmesg on
> > HEAD code if you'd like.
>=20
> Apply this patch first. It should be good as far as I can tell without=20
> having that chips datasheets.

Works fine.  Here is the verbose dmesg now that the machine is fully
booting on HEAD.  Thanks!

http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_v.dmesg

Joe
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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