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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Joyce <joyce@webcreations.ca>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AHCI and VT8251
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:47:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4373DBFC.5050208@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1131592459.30236.30.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Andrew Joyce wrote:
> I am trying to get a system using a VIA VT8251 chipset up and running.
> The chip claims to comply to the AHCI standard so, much like a previous
> poster, I added the PCI ID of the controller into the AHCI driver,
> compiled the 2.6.14 kernel and crossed my fingers.  I met with the same
> problems as were found earlier.  I am fairly certain this is an issue
> with the kernel driver and the new VT8251 chipset.  As far as I can tell
> this is the first board the chip is shipping in and the board has only
> been on the market for about a month at this stage.
> 
> I am presently unsure how to proceed in order to diagnose or address
> this problem.  My experience with kernel hacking is pretty limited but I
> would be willing to help out by testing whatever I can and I am happy to
> do some legwork and research to get this going.  Would anyone be
> interested in helping me address this problem?
> 
> I have attached the relevant portions of kernel messages below.

Does disabling PCI MSI fix things?

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-10 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10  3:14 AHCI and VT8251 Andrew Joyce
2005-11-10 23:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-11 20:33 Don Carroll

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