Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

Alan Cox
2007-07-09T09:43:18Z

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:23:24 -0500
Rodney Gordon II <meff@spherevision.org> wrote:

> Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in
> awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in
> another "heads up"..
>
> 2.6.22 hang: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itelock.jpg
> lspci -vvv: http://spherevision.org/sync/tmp/lspci.out
>
> Pentium-D 830 3.0GHz Dualcore on a ASUS P5LD2 with latest bios rev.
> 1804.
>
> SysRq does not work when this locks up.
>
> Patches, info, things to try, anything is welcome, I am available for
> awhile now and will try anything to get this working.

I'm at a bit of a loss on this one I'm afraid - it seems to be specific
to a couple of boards and every IT821x box I can lay my paws on works
beautifully.

It would be useful to know if a kernel built with no DMA support for the
IT8212 behaved as that might give us a clue about what is choking. If you
look in drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c:it821x_init_one you'll see a pair of
lines that say

mwdma = 0x1f,
udma_mask = 0x7f

remove, rebuild and report..

Thanks
Alan