Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:41:07 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk>
To:        Alexander Sabourenkov <screwdriver@lxnt.info>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
Subject:   Re: Patch RFC:  Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.
Message-ID:  <472AFEC3.7090001@deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <472AFB75.1070207@deepcore.dk>
References:  <472A548B.50406@lxnt.info> <472AFB75.1070207@deepcore.dk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
S=F8ren Schmidt wrote:
> Good catch!
>
> However from my quick glimpse at the Promise sources the limit seems=20
> to be 32 Dwords ie 32*4 =3D 128bytes.
> I'll investigate further and ask Promise for the gory details, stay=20
> tuned...
> I dont think the PRD count limitation is a real problem, I've newer=20
> seen that long a list and IIRC we newer do more than 64K transfers in=20
> one go (yet).
> Anyhow I need to get checks in for that not just here...
>
> Give me a few days and I'll get this figured out for 7-rel...
Oh, and I forgot, do you have a surefire way to reproduce the problem so =

the fix can be tested ?

I've newer been able to trigger this problem myself so far.


-S=F8ren




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?472AFEC3.7090001>