From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 18 12:44:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA351065672 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:44:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: from alchemy.franken.de (alchemy.franken.de [194.94.249.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47F28FC17 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alchemy.franken.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alchemy.franken.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/ALCHEMY.FRANKEN.DE) with ESMTP id n8ICiNI7057819; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:44:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: (from marius@localhost) by alchemy.franken.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8ICiNct057818; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:44:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marius) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:44:23 +0200 From: Marius Strobl To: R J Message-ID: <20090918124423.GP57060@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20090906182156.GA66161@alchemy.franken.de> <20090909184504.GD57060@alchemy.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata pci cards in ultra 60 or blade 1000 (Update) X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:44:28 -0000 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:28:25PM -0500, R J wrote: > Hi Marius, > I've been using the patched driver and have moved more than 500 gigs of > data on the disk drive attached to the ata-marvell controller. > > Can you incorporate your patch into the 8.0 BETA and 7.X stable? > > It seems a very stable, well-performing driver. It has worked flawlessly > during the moves of enormous data backup and forth between the built in > fibre-channel drives and the ata-marvell attached Hitachi drive. I've updated the patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/ata-marvell.c.diff slighlty based on feedback I got during review. Could you please give the new version (which has an MD5 hash of a56305fef5edb1d1510373b7e063aaab) a sanity check? Some basic transfer should be sufficient to verify it still works. If no new problem arises I'll commit the patch to head, stable/8 and stable/7. > > I wish I could say the same thing regarding the Sil3512. I still haven't > been able to go any where with that. AFAICT the "old" ata-siliconimage(4) suffers from the same bugs as ata-marvell(4) does, i.e. isn't endian clean and misses DMA synchronisation besides 64-bit DMA being broken, but isn't as straight forward to fix as ata-marvell(4) is. The new siis(4) doesn't have these bugs though, so I'd expect it to work fine. Have you talked to mav@freebsd.org regarding siis(4)? Marius