Re: maintenence sata_sis

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

Uwe Koziolek wrote:

>Hello Jeff,
>
>currently it exists 3 variants to support the SiS182 Chipset
>- use SiS182 with the code from SiS180, only add the PCI-ID to the driver
>- the source code from OSDL
>- the source code from www.sis.com
>Actually i have no SiS board available. So i have no chance to maintain
>the driver.
>
>regards
>Uwe Koziolek
>
>
>
>Arnaud Patard wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>I got recently a motherboard shipped with the SATA SIS 182 chipset. This
>>chipset is not supported by the kernel. I tried to just add the PCI IDS
>>in the supported chipset list as suggested on some mails in this
>>list but it didn't work for the hard drive connected on the second sata port.
>>
>>I found that this has been reported on
>>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192. Unfortunately the patch
>>didn't apply to the recents kernel. So, I've written a new minimal patch that
>>add support for this chipset. 
>>
>>It works well on the machine I have with a 2.6.12.5 kernel but I was not
>>able to test it on SIS 180/181 chipset (I don't have the hardware). 
>>
>>imho having support for this chipset in the kernel could be usefull, so
>>any feedback/comments are welcome. 
>>
>>Regards,
>>Arnaud Patard
>>
>>    
>>
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.