Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:48:26 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA) RELENG_4 Message-ID: <41F5894A.9080500@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200501242327.j0ONRTet050069@ambrisko.com> References: <200501242327.j0ONRTet050069@ambrisko.com>
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Doug Ambrisko wrote: >Julian Elischer writes: >| Doug, could you comit your patchsets to RELENG_4? > >I could but have not been given an okay from RE. > Theoreticallty you do not need RE's permission at the moment. (though it would be nice) > What I've proposed >to do before is commit the base HW support without my RAID and other >enhancements. This is essentially taking the stuff from 5-current >HW only bits to 4.X. That would let people use the HW. Then >fix some ATA/FreeBSD bugs so machines don't hang and panic. I don't >plan to bring in my RAID enhancements since then if people upgrade >to 5.X/6.X they will lose functionality. > >Very little of the core ata code in 4.X has to change since I have >compatibility macros to make it transparent. The bug fixes tweak some >of the ata core code. > >My employer would give me time to do this. > >| Doug Ambrisko wrote: >| >| >Dmitry Morozovsky writes: >| >| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >| >| >| >| DM> DA> There is: >| >| DM> DA> http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7.patch >| >| DM> DA> for 4.10. That deals with Intel and Promise SATA stuff and >| >| DM> DA> ata-raid fixes/enhancements. It deals with legacy and enhanced mod >es >| >| DM> DA> for Intel SATA. >| >| DM> DA> >| >| DM> DA> A bunch of people have installed it and are using this. A bunch of > >| >| DM> DA> our customers use it via our appliance. >| >| DM> >| >| DM> Wow, thanks! BTW, it seems some sio patches are slipped in by accident? >| >| >| >| BTW2: here is small patch to support Promise SATA PDC20376 controller found > on >| >| our Albatron MB >| > >| >[ Attachment, skipping... ] >| > >| >Thanks for the patch. It will go in the next patch set. I should make >| >a new one fairly soon since I initially prevented the Promise stuff from >| >using PIO but found out we need PIO for crash dumps. I need to test >| >the PIO change. It was pretty trivial since there is already stuff >| >to deal with this. > >Actually it looks like I did test it a while back so it should be ready >to go if someone is interested in testing it to make sure the PCI ID's >are right (Dmitry?). > >It's at: > http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_8.patch > >Thanks, > >Doug A. >_______________________________________________ >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" > >
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