TYan K7 Thunder: AMD-760 MP support

TYan K7 Thunder: AMD-760 MP support

[Paul G. Allen]

>From what I've seen in the 2.4-2 kernel (RH 7.1 stock kernel), the
AMD-760 MP chipset is not directly supported. It looks as though the
Host bridge, PCI bridge, ISA bridge, IDE, and AGP all have different
ID's than what the drivers are looking for, and since they don't match a
known AMD ID, they fall back to generic support, which works OK for some
things (like AGP), but I suspect that my ATA100 is not fully functional
and I can't access the Winbond chip through the ISA bridge (the SMBus is
not detected).

NOTE: Looking at AMDs Rev. documents, the current version of the chipset
probably has different IDs than pre-production boards did. My chips are
(fortunately, because the previous versions had non-functional AGP and
other issues) the newest release as per their documentation.

Do the newer kernel releases support the 760 MP chipset? Will they
anytime soon? (If not I will see if I can put it in myself.)

Thanks,

PGA

-- 
Paul G. Allen
UNIX Admin II/Network Security
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
www.akamai.com

Re: TYan K7 Thunder: AMD-760 MP support

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Paul G. Allen" <pgallen@randomlogic.com> writes:
 
> Do the newer kernel releases support the 760 MP chipset? Will they
> anytime soon? (If not I will see if I can put it in myself.)

There is better support in 2.4.7 (especially IDE) but there is not complete
support.  

I don't know of anyone planning on finishing up any the pieces so feel free.

Eric

Re: TYan K7 Thunder: AMD-760 MP support

[Eric W. Biederman]

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> "Paul G. Allen" <pgallen@randomlogic.com> writes:
>  
> > Do the newer kernel releases support the 760 MP chipset? Will they
> > anytime soon? (If not I will see if I can put it in myself.)
> 
> There is better support in 2.4.7 (especially IDE) but there is not complete
> support.  

Grr.  I lied.  There is code on linux-ide.org that contains a native ide
driver.  I thought I saw it in 2.4.7 but I was seeing things.

Eric

Re: TYan K7 Thunder: AMD-760 MP support

[Alan Cox]

> Grr.  I lied.  There is code on linux-ide.org that contains a native ide
> driver.  I thought I saw it in 2.4.7 but I was seeing things.

2.4.7ac should be up to date on it

Re: TYan K7 Thunder: AMD-760 MP support

[Paul G. Allen]

I guess it's time to upgrade then and go from there.

That means the Kernel docs. and metrics on my server will be going down
while I do it. (I notice it's been getting a lot of use).

PGA

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Grr.  I lied.  There is code on linux-ide.org that contains a native ide
> > driver.  I thought I saw it in 2.4.7 but I was seeing things.
> 
> 2.4.7ac should be up to date on it
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Paul G. Allen
UNIX Admin II/Network Security
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
www.akamai.com