Re: maintenence sata_sis

[Wes Newell <w.newell@verizon.net>]

Arnaud Patard wrote:

>Wes Newell <w.newell@verizon.net> writes:
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>>Uwe Koziolek wrote:
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>>>Wes Newell wrote:
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>>>>I've got a Jetway S755MAX that also has a real SIS180 onboard and have
>>>>been trying to get PATA support for it without any luck for several
>>>>months now. The sata_sis driver from SIS just locks up the machine
>>>>when I attach a pata drive. With the help of a few here, I patched the
>>>>sis5513 driver, but it has lost interrupt problems. I basically gave
>>>>up on this ever working a couple of months ago. Do you think there's
>>>>any hope at all? I'm willing to try whatever some can point me
>>>>towards, but I'm not a C programmer. I can compile kernels though and
>>>>follow instructions.
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>>>The SiS180 has disabled the interrupts by default. You must enable the
>>>interrupts in the PCI-config space.
>>>You can find a function pci_enable_intx() in the sata_sis.c.
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>>>regards
>>>Uwe Koziolek
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>>Well, now you've really lost me. I wasn't using sata_sis when I got
>>the drive to work with lost interrupts. I was using a patched sis5513
>>ide driver. So maybe I should just forget that and say that the
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>the sis5513 driver is the ide driver and sata_sis for sata/pata.
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This much I know, but since the original sata_sis with 2.6.11 didn't see 
the drives at all and the SIS sata_sis locked up the machine with a pata 
drive atached, and I don't have any sata drives, I just tried patching 
it, and it at least saw the drives and I could read and write to them, 
but because of the lost interrrupts, it was realllll slow. I would much 
prefer to get both sata and pata portion of it working with sata_sis if 
possible.

>>machine locks up solid when I try and load sata_sis from
>>sis18x_2.6.10_1.00.00. So I really don't understand what you are
>>saying I need to do here. Remember, I'm not a C programmer  and only
>>came here some months back to see if someone could fix this. I'm
>>willing to help in any way I can testing, but if you want me to patch
>>something or enable something, you're going to have to lead me by the
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>Even if it was not perfect as concern the pata support, you may also
>test the patch I mailed. 
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What patch was this and for which sata_sis was it for and where do i get it.