Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:46PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> I can easily reproduce the problem in 2.6.22-rc4. There are no
>> sata_promise changes between rc3 and rc4, but Tejun's libata
>> polling SETXFER change was included in rc4. Reverting it makes
>> sata_promise work again for me.
> 
> Ugh.

Reverting Tejun's patch also fixed my boot failure.

00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 
376) (rev 02)
         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X motherboard
         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 16
         I/O ports at d400 [size=64]
         I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
         I/O ports at b800 [size=128]
         Memory at f6800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if
  8a [Master SecP PriP])
         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X / A7V333 motherboard
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255
         [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
         [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
         [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
         [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
         I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
         Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

The problem is that the controller can't be initialized properly, so
the kernel keeps trying every 5 seconds.  I gave up after about five
failures.  If the actual boot error messages would help I'll need to
copy them by hand -- just say the word.