Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:37:12 -0500 From: Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <475DF7D8.2020203@terranova.net> In-Reply-To: <475CEA07.1050500@deepcore.dk> References: <73807.10710.qm@web63912.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <200711280842.09340.jhb@freebsd.org> <474D726A.8080807@deepcore.dk> <200711280938.38545.jhb@freebsd.org> <474E5B69.7070406@yandex.ru> <474E65D6.4040403@deepcore.dk> <474E69AE.7000105@yandex.ru> <475978E1.2090507@deepcore.dk> <475C6C3E.6070004@deepcore.dk> <475CC426.3060808@terranova.net> <475CCAA0.5040900@terranova.net> <475CEA07.1050500@deepcore.dk>
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Søren Schmidt wrote: > Yep, I'm not convinced there are "generic" DMA problems with that > chipset, but the ATA part definitively has trouble, I'm (slowly) working > my way through the different results here to try pinpoint the problem > more precisely. > I'm also going to try a Marvell ctlr later today, more news later... Ah, very good, I was going to ask if you needed a Marvell PCI-X controller. You're by far the expert compared to me in this arena, but I was having the exact same issue (including the memory corruption) when booting from the Marvell PCI-X SATA controller... smells like a somewhat generic HT1000 barfing-on-DMA problem to my inexperienced nose :) >> I also see this isn't first and only chipset to have the exact same >> dma max_iosize limit imposed :) > Right, the usual need for this limit is that the 64K size means that the > count reg is set to zero, and some HW designers just didn't get that right. > > In this case its different as it does not always fail, but I havn't > found the combo that makes it fail yet. However the workaround seems to > be quite solid, but there might be a better / more correct way to solve > it still. Perhaps something could be devised involving a kernel option that works around the errata? Wouldn't be the first time. options HT1000_WORKAROUND... would suck if it involved making an ifdef for every ata driver :( -- TerraNovaNet Internet Services - Key Largo, FL Voice: (305)453-4011 x101 Fax: (305)451-5991 http://www.terranova.net/ ---------------------------------------------- Life's not fair, but the root password helps.
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