From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 7:35:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from test.tar.com (test.tar.com [204.95.187.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF36615647 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:35:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@test.tar.com) Received: (from dick@localhost) by test.tar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01435; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:34:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dick) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:34:36 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman Jr." To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Greg Lehey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!) Message-ID: <19991209093436.A782@tar.com> References: <19991208213429.28285@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <199912091503.QAA81292@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199912091503.QAA81292@freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:03:58PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > > > OK, you asked for it, following is a patch to support the > > > sis 5591 chipset. Remember this is done blindfolded, I > > > have no HW to test on, but you guys do :) > > > > > > Let me know what happens... > > > > OK. Let's defer removing wd until we know that ata DMA works on these > > platforms. We'll have a lot of unhappy customers otherwise, myself > > (wearing another hat) included. If nobody else gets there first, I'll > > look at this next week. > > It already being tested, and it works, but at the same tike I found > out that the code in the old driver for the sis is schizofrenic, it > has one way of setting things up, and another way of reporting how > it is set :(, that way it is difficult to compare results from > the two drivers.. I think the old wd code was broken on reporting. The reporting was changed from the original submission, when it was committed. See the attached message: