Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:03:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge? Message-ID: <200306171703.h5HH3U2l012237@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <p05200f20bb14f7371af0@[192.168.254.205]>
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It seems 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. It is supported in 5.1. -Søren
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