Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:19:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge? Message-ID: <200309150719.h8F7JLrZ015103@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <p06001a04bb8b065c1359@[192.168.254.205]>
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It seems Rich Morin wrote: > With FreeBSD 4.9 on the horizon, I thought I might bring this up again... > There is no time for this on 4.9 (at least if it should be done properly. 5.1 has support for all SiS chipsets... > At 10:01 AM -0700 6/17/03, Rich Morin wrote: > >I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, as: > > > > 478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz > > 512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.) > > SiS962(L) Southbridge > > > >I then found that I couldn't boot the (FreeBSD 4.7) system, getting: > > > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting > > ata0: resetting devices > > > >After a bunch of Googling and some discussions on freebsd-questions, > >I decided to change line 90 of /usr/src/sys/dev/ataata-disk.c to: > > > > static int ata_dma = 0; > > > >This works, but I suspect that it is slowing down my disk I/O quite a > >bit. So, I would like to know the prospects for this controller being > >supported in FreeBSD any time soon. > -- > email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 > http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. > http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -Søren
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