From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264477AbTIDCbk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:31:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264479AbTIDCbk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:31:40 -0400 Received: from k-kdom.nishanet.com ([65.125.12.2]:28168 "EHLO mail2k.k-kdom.nishanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264477AbTIDCbi (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:31:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F56A147.1040009@boxho.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:19:51 -0400 From: Resident Boxholder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel List Subject: Re: "bleating edge" What is the SiI 0680 chipset status? References: <20030902165537.GA1830@bartek.tu.kielce.pl> <1062589779.19059.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1062589779.19059.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org siimage.c is not broken, works, and may be perfect, since workarounds point to ioapic handling for which siimage.c is just downstream. ioapic code could be fine, too, and boards or chips responsible for ioapic problems, but ioapic is involved when things go wrong. Total ACPI lobotomy is unnecessary, acpi is valuable. Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2003-09-02 at 17:55, Tomasz B±tor wrote: > > >>I recently got MiNt PCI IDE ATA/133 RAID controller based on SiI 0680 >>chipset. I browsed through the archives and I know that the driver is >>known to be broken and simply doesn't work. >> >> > >It just works. You do want 2.4.22 ideally, and you want 2.4.22-ac to use >hotplug. > >Alan > SiI680 siig ata/133 card, siimage.c(and no separate cmd640 fix option) kern 2.6.0-test4, kernel APIC on but kernel IOAPIC off then hdparm -c1 -d1 -p9 -u0 -X70 the drives on the sii680 cmos setup setting APIC off gets rtl8139c card to ping by letting linux turn apic on That's nforce2 mbo with rtl8139c on **card** and sii680 on card. Then rtl8139a **onboard ** with all via chips in a Shuttle SK41G toaster FX41 mbo had the same no-ping problem fixed by using kernel 2.6.0-test2 or test4 instead of 2.4! That defines 2.6 as "bleating edge" for sheeple--turning acpi off is more drastic than necessary, and the siimage.c driver is not "broken" or perhaps even involved with the IOAPIC problem, and using 2.6 can make something work where 2.4 doesn't. I guess sii680 qualifies as bleatiing edge. I was close to going scsi-bear. Actually I pulled the raid jumper off sii680 so sii680's two drives and two more on onboard amd74xx nforce2 are handled by linux software raid0, reiserfs. -Bob