AHCI driver with ASUS P5B

AHCI driver with ASUS P5B

[Mathias Jeschke]

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Hello Jeff,

first thank you for your great job on the AHCI linux kernel driver.

I have a problem with the detection of 2 of my 4 SATA ports on the
mainboard (a P5B one), since ASUS implemented the last two as port 4 and 5
(started by zero) - so port 2 and 3 are physically unused.

Your driver reads a value of "4" and initializes only the first 4 ports
and so ports 4 and 5 become unusable.

So I have a suggestion to support some boards with "incorrect" ports value
in the controller register:
  Add an extra kernel parameter (e.g. "ahci=<nr_of_ports>") and override
  these "autodetection" if such a kernel paramter is given.

I added a patch file, which implements this feature.

Regards,
Mathias

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--- linux-2.6.17.11.orig/drivers/scsi/ahci.c	2006-08-31 12:54:06.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17.11/drivers/scsi/ahci.c	2006-08-31 21:12:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
 static u8 ahci_check_status(struct ata_port *ap);
 static inline int ahci_host_intr(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 static void ahci_remove_one (struct pci_dev *pdev);
+static u8 sata_phy_ports;
 
 static struct scsi_host_template ahci_sht = {
 	.module			= THIS_MODULE,
@@ -1015,7 +1016,8 @@
 
 	hpriv->cap = readl(mmio + HOST_CAP);
 	hpriv->port_map = readl(mmio + HOST_PORTS_IMPL);
-	probe_ent->n_ports = (hpriv->cap & 0x1f) + 3;
+	probe_ent->n_ports = sata_phy_ports ? sata_phy_ports : (hpriv->cap & 0x1f) + 1;
+	dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &pdev->dev, "override autodetection, use kernel paramter: ports=%u\n", sata_phy_ports);
 
 	VPRINTK("cap 0x%x  port_map 0x%x  n_ports %d\n",
 		hpriv->cap, hpriv->port_map, probe_ent->n_ports);
@@ -1347,3 +1349,19 @@
 
 module_init(ahci_init);
 module_exit(ahci_exit);
+
+#if !defined(MODULE)
+static int __init ahci_setup(char *str)
+{
+    int ints[2];
+    
+	get_options(str, ARRAY_SIZE(ints), ints);
+	if (ints[0] == 1)
+		sata_phy_ports = ints[1];
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__setup("ahci=", ahci_setup);
+#endif
+

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