From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 11 15:20:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74561065672 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:20:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932128FC28 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4379E46B03; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:20:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 849858A020; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:20:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Nick Hilliard Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:19:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4A9BF23F.6070801@netability.ie> <200909081325.13149.jhb@freebsd.org> <4AAA3744.5020604@netability.ie> In-Reply-To: <4AAA3744.5020604@netability.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909111119.04511.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:20:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-beta3 does not detect several ata channels X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:20:02 -0000 On Friday 11 September 2009 7:40:52 am Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 08/09/2009 18:25, John Baldwin wrote: > > So as with the other pciconf output I got, it seems that it is reading the > > registers ok in both cases. Can you add some printfs to the ata driver to > > figure out when it starts behaving differently (e.g. reading a value from a > > register) between the mcfg=0 and mcfg=1 cases on 8? > > oh my, this is causing sadness. > > I've installed 8.0 on a usb key and am running into the mountroot problem > that others are seeing: Hmm, I figured you could just install 8.0 onto the system with mcfg disabled and set mcfg=1 when booting a test kernel so you didn't have to go the full-blown USB key route. > You'll have to excuse me but my ata driver clue is epsilon away from zero. > If you can tell me what sort of stuff to put where, I can build a kernel > with local mods and report on what it's doing. But being inventive with > this is beyond my understanding of what's going on in the pcie subsystem. > Sorry :-( Ah, I would probably start with adding printfs to the various routines in sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-nvidia.c. -- John Baldwin