From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 19:50:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66A61065672 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout4.freenet.de (mout4.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6581D8FC1E for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.21] (helo=11.mx.freenet.de) by mout4.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JZtRH-0003VP-Sr; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:50:07 +0100 Received: from rb624.r.pppool.de ([89.54.182.36]:41892 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 11.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #12) id 1JZtRH-0002zR-Iz; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:50:07 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:50:06 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: "Alexander Sack" Message-ID: <20080313205006.333c6c26@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820803131149s67cac66vae6834f1480c0aaa@mail.gmail.com> References: <1841496593.20080313175115@gulfstream.by> <20080313191621.1772d40a@peedub.jennejohn.org> <3c0b01820803131149s67cac66vae6834f1480c0aaa@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new SATA chipsets support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:50:09 -0000 On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:49:52 -0400 "Alexander Sack" wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Gary Jennejohn > wrote: > > > > I can't speak to this, but why not use a board which is already known > > to work? I'm using a Gigabyte M61P-S3 myself. > > > > > I think that drivers from ASUS ( > > http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-en&model=M2N-SLI%20Deluxe) > > may not work with FreeBSD? > > > > > > > These are guaranteed not to work, unless you want to port the Linux > > drivers. > > > I see that 7.0-RELEASE has ATA Nvidia chipset support. Does that not cover > the SATA nvidia chipsets of their unified MCP chipset? I'm just curious if > this could be fixed by adding this particular chipset PCI information to > struct ata_nvidia_ident in sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c. It looks MCP55 is > certainly supported but again I'm stabbing slightly in the dark since I > don't know SATA NV. > > Sorry if this is totally off. I'm new to the FreeBSD kernel but not SATA > driver development in general. Its just a thought... > Well, according to "man ata" the nforce[23] MCP (among other nvidia chipsets) are supported. My motherboard has MCP61 which works just fine. But I'm no expert on nvidia chip sets and can't really evaluate whether just adding the PCI information will work. --- Gary Jennejohn