From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add support for Adaptec 1210SA (was: Re: SiI3112 (Adaptec 1210SA): no devices) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:24:17 -0400 (EDT) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200306082324.h58NOHI18294@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20030608214504.GA5754@carfax.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:25654 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264060AbTFHXKo (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:10:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030608214504.GA5754@carfax.org.uk> from "Hugo Mills" at Meh 08, 2003 10:45:04 List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hugo Mills Cc: Alan Cox , Samuel Flory , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, andre@linux-ide.org > > Its clearly clos in that it works in PIO although DMA is failing > > Given that there appear to be problems with DMA in the plain SiI > driver, would it be worth my while waiting until those are sorted out > before continuing? I'll fold the patch in anyway, maybe set to pio by default > What would be the next steps in getting this thing working? Should > I try to obtain the board/chip specifications from Adaptec? Or start > poking stuff into arbitrary registers? :) Given it seems its an SI chip I suspect SI are the right people here if we need to bug someone. I would be very suprised if this is anything but an SI3112. Its expensive to fab a chip so you dont fab special ones for people. You might print a different logo or change the PCI ID in the external serial eeprom but no more. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264060AbTFHXKw (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:10:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264063AbTFHXKw (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:10:52 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:25654 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264060AbTFHXKo (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:10:44 -0400 From: Alan Cox Message-Id: <200306082324.h58NOHI18294@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add support for Adaptec 1210SA (was: Re: SiI3112 (Adaptec 1210SA): no devices) To: hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk (Hugo Mills) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 19:24:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox), sflory@rackable.com (Samuel Flory), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, andre@linux-ide.org In-Reply-To: <20030608214504.GA5754@carfax.org.uk> from "Hugo Mills" at Meh 08, 2003 10:45:04 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Its clearly clos in that it works in PIO although DMA is failing > > Given that there appear to be problems with DMA in the plain SiI > driver, would it be worth my while waiting until those are sorted out > before continuing? I'll fold the patch in anyway, maybe set to pio by default > What would be the next steps in getting this thing working? Should > I try to obtain the board/chip specifications from Adaptec? Or start > poking stuff into arbitrary registers? :) Given it seems its an SI chip I suspect SI are the right people here if we need to bug someone. I would be very suprised if this is anything but an SI3112. Its expensive to fab a chip so you dont fab special ones for people. You might print a different logo or change the PCI ID in the external serial eeprom but no more.