Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > One thing I've found for nForce chipset: official patches from nVidia 
> > (network driver is under nVidia's licence, all the rest is under GPL).
> > Hope that helps:
> > 
> > http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0236
> 
> Unfortunately the license you must agree to says it is all nvidia license
> and furthermore contains clauses illegal in the UK. If Nvidia was to submit
> any GPL bits they wanted merged without such stuff it would be useful

That's probably simple error by nvidia...
								Pavel
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nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

hi

I just bought this Asus board, A7N266-VM, with nVidia IDE, LAN and god knows 
chipset. Linux doesn't understand it, and I really want it... Any plans of 
supporting this? See below for /proc/pci output.

thanks

roy

please cc: to me, as I'm nolonger on the list

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vs_demo:~# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: PCI device 10de:01a4 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 178).
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xfbffffff].
  Bus  0, device   0, function  1:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ac (nVidia Corporation) (rev 178).
  Bus  0, device   0, function  2:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ad (nVidia Corporation) (rev 178).
  Bus  0, device   0, function  3:
    RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01aa (nVidia Corporation) (rev 178).
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    ISA bridge: PCI device 10de:01b2 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 195).
  Bus  0, device   1, function  1:
    SMBus: PCI device 10de:01b4 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      I/O at 0x5000 [0x500f].
      I/O at 0x5500 [0x550f].
      I/O at 0x5100 [0x511f].
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    USB Controller: PCI device 10de:01c2 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 195).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe7000fff].
  Bus  0, device   3, function  0:
    USB Controller: PCI device 10de:01c2 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 195).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6800000 [0xe6800fff].
  Bus  0, device   4, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: PCI device 10de:01c3 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 194).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=20.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe60003ff].
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807].
  Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 10de:01b0 (nVidia Corporation) 
(rev 194).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=12.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5800000 [0xe587ffff].
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 10de:01b1 (nVidia Corporation) 
(rev 194).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=5.
      I/O at 0xe100 [0xe1ff].
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe07f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5000000 [0xe5000fff].
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 10de:01b8 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 194).
  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    IDE interface: PCI device 10de:01bc (nVidia Corporation) (rev 195).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      I/O at 0xa800 [0xa80f].
  Bus  0, device  30, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 10de:01b7 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 178).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=8.
  Bus  1, device   6, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
      I/O at 0xb800 [0xb8ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4800000 [0xe48000ff].
  Bus  2, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: PCI device 10de:01a0 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 
177).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3000000 [0xe3ffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xefffffff].


-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:14:54PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
 > I just bought this Asus board, A7N266-VM, with nVidia IDE, LAN and god knows 
 > chipset. Linux doesn't understand it, and I really want it... Any plans of 
 > supporting this? See below for /proc/pci output.

It's an nForce chipset. To the best of my knowledge, there are no
public specs for this beast, so your only hope is probably to bug
nVidia.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Alan Cox]

> I just bought this Asus board, A7N266-VM, with nVidia IDE, LAN and god knows 
> chipset. Linux doesn't understand it, and I really want it... Any plans of 
> supporting this? See below for /proc/pci output.

Depends if Nvidia want to be helpful. The audio is now supported (someone
was able to deduce that it was a clone of the intel one). For the ethernet
you might want to try random things that expect that much mmio and I/O 
space until you find what they licensed if its not their own

>   Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
>     Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 10de:01b0 (nVidia Corporation) 
> (rev 194).

This one I've not seen before

>   Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
>     Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 10de:01b1 (nVidia Corporation) 

But this is supported. I wonder if both are the same ?

Alan

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

On Sunday 19 May 2002 17:58, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:14:54PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>  > I just bought this Asus board, A7N266-VM, with nVidia IDE, LAN and god
>  > knows chipset. Linux doesn't understand it, and I really want it... Any
>  > plans of supporting this? See below for /proc/pci output.
>
> It's an nForce chipset. To the best of my knowledge, there are no
> public specs for this beast, so your only hope is probably to bug
> nVidia.

it looks like the LAN part is an RTL8201L, but I get some EEPROM read error...

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Michael Dunsky]

Hi!

One thing I've found for nForce chipset: official patches from nVidia 
(network driver is under nVidia's licence, all the rest is under GPL).
Hope that helps:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0236

ciao

Michael


Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
 > hi
 >
 > I just bought this Asus board, A7N266-VM, with nVidia IDE, LAN and god
 > knows chipset. Linux doesn't understand it, and I really want it...
 > Any plans of supporting this? See below for /proc/pci output.
 >
 > thanks
 >
 > roy
 >
 > please cc: to me, as I'm nolonger on the list
 >

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Alan Cox]

> One thing I've found for nForce chipset: official patches from nVidia 
> (network driver is under nVidia's licence, all the rest is under GPL).
> Hope that helps:
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0236

Unfortunately the license you must agree to says it is all nvidia license
and furthermore contains clauses illegal in the UK. If Nvidia was to submit
any GPL bits they wanted merged without such stuff it would be useful

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Alan Cox]

> It's an nForce chipset. To the best of my knowledge, there are no
> public specs for this beast, so your only hope is probably to bug
> nVidia.

Your best bet is probably to return it and buy something better.

Alan

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:00:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > > I just bought this Asus board, A7N266-VM, with nVidia IDE, LAN and god knows 
 > > chipset. Linux doesn't understand it, and I really want it... Any plans of 
 > > supporting this? See below for /proc/pci output.
 > 
 > Depends if Nvidia want to be helpful. The audio is now supported (someone
 > was able to deduce that it was a clone of the intel one). For the ethernet
 > you might want to try random things that expect that much mmio and I/O 
 > space until you find what they licensed if its not their own

In 2.5 the amd74xx.c ide driver has an entry to support the nforce IDE
too, so it looks like quite a bit of the chipset could be variants of
existing components.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Alan Cox]

>  > Depends if Nvidia want to be helpful. The audio is now supported (someone
>  > was able to deduce that it was a clone of the intel one). For the ethernet
>  > you might want to try random things that expect that much mmio and I/O 
>  > space until you find what they licensed if its not their own
> 
> In 2.5 the amd74xx.c ide driver has an entry to support the nforce IDE
> too, so it looks like quite a bit of the chipset could be variants of
> existing components.

Even more interesting is that the AMD audio is also a clone of the i810.
So that makes the AMD audio and AMD ide apparently match the Nvidia audio
and Nvidia ide (minus the Nvidia extra 'media controller')

Unfortunately the AMD PCnetXX ethernet doesn't match up with the amount
of I/O space their ethernet has.

Alan

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[fchabaud]

Le 17 Mai, Pavel Machek a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
>> > One thing I've found for nForce chipset: official patches from nVidia 
>> > (network driver is under nVidia's licence, all the rest is under GPL).
>> > Hope that helps:
>> > 
>> > http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0236
>> 
>> Unfortunately the license you must agree to says it is all nvidia license
>> and furthermore contains clauses illegal in the UK. If Nvidia was to submit
>> any GPL bits they wanted merged without such stuff it would be useful
> 
> That's probably simple error by nvidia...
> 								Pavel

nvidia help for swsusp would be nice also. I tried the patch on my
desktop for the first time and it seems to work reliably (even from X)
except that 3D is lost after resume. That's rather curious: menus
without highlights or things like that.

--
Florent Chabaud
http://www.ssi.gouv.fr | http://fchabaud.free.fr

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi

> >> Unfortunately the license you must agree to says it is all nvidia license
> >> and furthermore contains clauses illegal in the UK. If Nvidia was to submit
> >> any GPL bits they wanted merged without such stuff it would be useful
> > 
> > That's probably simple error by nvidia...
> 
> nvidia help for swsusp would be nice also. I tried the patch on my
> desktop for the first time and it seems to work reliably (even from X)
> except that 3D is lost after resume. That's rather curious: menus
> without highlights or things like that.

Hmmm... I guess we might get them to fix it for 2.6 ;-).
								Pavel
-- 
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Alan Cox]

> nvidia help for swsusp would be nice also. I tried the patch on my
> desktop for the first time and it seems to work reliably (even from X)
> except that 3D is lost after resume. That's rather curious: menus
> without highlights or things like that.

I've seen a few machines where you have to reinitialize the GART. Thats
where the pm hooks for the agpgart code came from. That may be worth a try.

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[fchabaud]

Le 22 Mai, Alan Cox a écrit :
>> nvidia help for swsusp would be nice also. I tried the patch on my
>> desktop for the first time and it seems to work reliably (even from X)
>> except that 3D is lost after resume. That's rather curious: menus
>> without highlights or things like that.
> 
> I've seen a few machines where you have to reinitialize the GART. Thats
> where the pm hooks for the agpgart code came from. That may be worth a try.
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I'll give it a try since that's exactly what I did for my i810 laptop
chipset. 

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Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:20:28PM -0400, Hayden James wrote:
> The asus board uses the realtek 8139 as the onboard nic and should be
> supported by the linux kernel.  The audio seems to be an exact clone of
> the i810 driver with just same name changes and added pci ids, you can
> get the gpl patches for it at nvidia's web site.  The rest of the
> facilities, ide,

nVidia nForce IDE is supported only in 2.5 at the moment. 2.5 also
supports it's sounds without any modifications. USB is a standard OHCI
there, so no problem.

> usb etc should be supported normally by the linux kernel.
> Also you will need to get the separate nVidia video driver for graphics
> support.
> 
> Hayden A. James
> Computer Engineering
> Stevens Institute of Technology
> http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~hjames/
> 
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Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Alan Cox]

> supported by the linux kernel.  The audio seems to be an exact clone of
> the i810 driver with just same name changes and added pci ids, you can

Already in 2.4.19pre

> get the gpl patches for it at nvidia's web site.  The rest of the

The ones behind a license that conflicts at the moment

> facilities, ide, usb etc should be supported normally by the linux kernel.

The IDE needs 2.5.x at the moment but you'll get dire PIO

> Also you will need to get the separate nVidia video driver for graphics
> support.

Better yet - help out on the utah-glx nvidia driver that way you might be
able to debug things.

Re: nVidia NIC/IDE/something support?

[Hayden James]

The asus board uses the realtek 8139 as the onboard nic and should be
supported by the linux kernel.  The audio seems to be an exact clone of
the i810 driver with just same name changes and added pci ids, you can
get the gpl patches for it at nvidia's web site.  The rest of the
facilities, ide, usb etc should be supported normally by the linux kernel.
Also you will need to get the separate nVidia video driver for graphics
support.

Hayden A. James
Computer Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~hjames/