From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 00:19:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8D716A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0541F43F75 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8F7JQIo015104; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:19:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8F7JLrZ015103; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:19:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200309150719.h8F7JLrZ015103@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: To: Rich Morin Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:19:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.3 cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:19:39 -0000 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