Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:40:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: dan@ice.nodomain Subject: Re: 5.1 harware Message-ID: <200308080740.h787eXid000787@ice.nodomain>
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2003, pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: >>>>>> > I have been unable to install 5.1, 5 or 4.8 releases on MSI 875P-NEO-FIS2R > motherboard. > I am led to believe, from reading the documentation, that the Intel ICH5R > chipset and the Intel 82547EI (CSA interface) for Lan are not supported. > They are rather recent... > Is there a foreseeable future when these will be integrated? >>>>>> I posted a similar question to freebsd-stable a couple of weeks ago: >>>>>> > Does anyone know if support for the Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset > has yet made it into the stable branch? (Is release 4.9 likely to have > it?) I am mainly interested in the IDE and "native" serial ATA devices. > There is also a new Intel ethernet controller chip, 82547EI, that is > designed to interface directly with the 875P chip. The currently > supported chip list only goes up to the 82546. >>>>>> Here are some of the responses. On Thu Jul 31, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> wrote: >>>>>> > I'm tracking RELENG_5_1 at home on my desktop machine, which has an Abit > IC7-G for the motherboard. The relevant bit here is that I upgraded that > machine from RELENG_4 after I upgraded the hardware. It's been almost 2 > months now, so my memory is hazy, but I think if you're going to run 4-S > on it, you have to run ACPI. I can tell you that 5.1-R right off the CD > was just fine with it (I did a binary upgrade then CVSup'd the (very few) > changes to avoid issues like back when things went from a.out to ELF). >>>>>> I think that by his reference to ACPI (an acronym for Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface; see www.acpi.info) he meant that I would have to use the bootstrap BIOS to configure the xATA ports to run in "legacy" mode. Later on Thu Jul 31, Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org> wrote: >>>>>> > Funny you should ask. Last weekend I obtained a Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 > motherboard with an 875P/ICH5 combo. A number of devices didn't > work on 5.1-RELEASE. > > The devices which didn't work are the Intel Ethernet, SMBus, audio, > and USB 2.0 controllers, and the Realtek ALC655 codec. I managed to > get all of these working execpt the USB controller by doing some > easy hacks to the source (not bad for my first shot at FreeBSD > kernel code). > > There are various PRs for these issues, including: > > kern/52927 Ethernet controller > kern/54176 Audio and ALC655 > kern/55094 USB 2.0 controller > > I submitted a bug for the SMBus controller last night (before the > USB 2.0 one listed above), but it seems a PR still hasn't been > assigned. I hope I didn't accidentally cancel my send-pr submission. > > If you'd like my patches for all of these (except the USB 2.0 one, > which doesn't work and I think might be totally wrong), just let > me know. You'll probably have to stitch them into the source by > hand unless you're running 5.1-RELEASE, but at least they'll be > a reference to work from. >>>>>> Later on Thu Jul 31, Craig Boston <craig@meoqu.gank.org> responded: >>>>>> > Saw your post on -stable about this, and decided to take a look since I'm > about to get my hands on a similar (82801DB) motherboard. > > If it's the USB 2.0 controller that's isn't being detected, shouldn't ehci by > patched instead of uhci...? You may want to give the attached, completely > untested, patch a try. I.e. it compiles on my box, but I don't have any > hardware to actually test it on yet. Might theoretically work depending on > how closely Intel followed the EHCI spec. Note that the patch includes > entries for both the DB and EB variants of the chip. > > I'm not sure why the code to pick up generic EHCI devices didn't find it > though. >>>>>> and included some c source patches. (Check the freebsd-stable archives if you want to find them. The message id is <200307312340.45844.craig@meoqu.gank.org>.) Then on Mon Aug 4, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >>>>>> > With Intel's 875PBZLK board, I've had no trouble at all with 5.1-R > or -CURRENT. The GigE, PATA, SATA, and USB work for certain, > although the SATA drives are detected as ATA-133. But Gigabyte > uses different chips for some of these components, and as you > point out, there are problems with these. The point is that > there's nothing inherently incompatible about the i875 chipset > itself. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to try 4.X on this > box yet, so I can't say whether there are any issues there... >>>>>> These are all the responses I have have collected so far. If anyone reading this has anything to contribute, I would very much like to see it. My new motherboard, a Gigabyte 8KNXP, is sheduled for delivery in about a week. Like the MSI 875P-NEO-FIS2R, it uses the Intel 875P/ICH5R support chipset with an Intel 82547EI CSA ethernet controller chip. The 8KNXP also has an ITE GigaRAID IT8212 chip controlling two PATA ports and a Silicon Image SIL3112 chip controlling two SATA ports apparently hanging off the PCI bus. The firewire ports are driven by a TSB43AB23 chip and the on-board audio uses a Realtek ALC655 CODEC. None of these parts are listed as supported by the FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1 releases. In anyone knows where I could get drivers for these devices or if they are likely to be supported by the FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.2 releases, please let me know. Thanks, Dan Strick strick@covad.net
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