From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaud Patard Subject: Re: maintenence sata_sis Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:32:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4309A268.8090203@gmx.net> <430AA69A.1030307@verizon.net> <430AD885.4080001@gmx.net> <430B63D1.6080108@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ezoffice.mandriva.com ([84.14.106.134]:7173 "EHLO anduin.mandrakesoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932379AbVHWU3q (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:29:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <430B63D1.6080108@verizon.net> (Wes Newell's message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:58:41 -0500") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Wes Newell Cc: Uwe Koziolek , "linux.ide" Wes Newell writes: > Uwe Koziolek wrote: > >>Wes Newell wrote: >> >> >> >>>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. >>> >>> >>> >>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. >> >>regards >>Uwe Koziolek >> >> >> > 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 the sis5513 driver is the ide driver and sata_sis for sata/pata. > 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 Even if it was not perfect as concern the pata support, you may also test the patch I mailed. > hand and show me what code, and exactly where to put within the base > code. I can find function pci_enable_intx in sata_sis.c, but I don't > have a clue as to what to do with it and since I wasn't using > sata_sis, but the sis5513 driver when i could finally see the drives, > I'm totally lost. (FYI pci_enable_intx function will disappear. It'll be replaced by pci_intx) > > -- > KT133 MB, CPU @2400MHz (24x100): SIS755 MB CPU @2330MHz (10x233) > Need good help? Provide all system info with question. > My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php > Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html