RE: About forcing 32bit DMA patch for AMD690G(SB600)

2008-02-10 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
Shane Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Tejun: My 5 cents: Just order the board. These stock PC hardware are too cheap these days, it doesn't make any sense to try to debug somewhat difficult problem remotely if the hardware is available on the market. Even if you have to

Re: 2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
[Sorry to reply to my own email thread] Srihari Vijayaraghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. Basically it goes on reseting the SATA ports throwing many errors (none are present in 2.6.23 or on 2.6.24-rc with mem=3500M

Re: 2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-12 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Hmmm.. weird. The workaround is still there. Please post boot log. OK, that's good to hear. Alas, after the Fedora 7 to 8 upgrade, I'm no longer able to compile a kernel (some uhci-hcd module not found for the initrd). And I was too quick to overwrite

2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-08 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
(Same symptoms/behaviour as before: http://marc.info/?l=linux-idem=117949823328798w=2 http://marc.info/?t=11781097043r=1w=2) With mem=3500M all is well, otherwise it goes on reseting the ports in a loop not booting :-( Thanks Hari Feel safe with award winning spam

Re: [PATCH] ahci: disable 64bit dma on sb600

2007-05-22 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SB600 claims it can do 64bit DMA but it can't. Disable it. [...] Srihari, can you test this against 2.6.22-rc1-git7 just in case? I'll send this upstream after you ack. It's merged in today's git (quickly tested it it's working good as expected) :-).

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-18 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: --- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Can the Skymaster S3132, based on Sil3132, (http://umart.net/au/product_info.php?cPath=21_211products_id=106108) do 64 bit DMA on Linux? Yeah, sil3124/32 can do 64bit

Re: [PATCH] ahci: disable 64bit dma on sb600

2007-05-18 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SB600 claims it can do 64bit DMA but it can't. Disable it. DON'T APPLY YET --- Srihari, can you test this against 2.6.22-rc1-git7 just in case? I'll send this upstream after you ack. Tejun, Of course. Yes, it's working great without mem=4095M

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-12 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: Oh well, that's the price you have to pay when you 1. have a device which can't access memory above 4G but 2. don't have IOMMU to do it for the device. If performance becomes problem, you can always get a not-so

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-08 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, It just seems sb600 claims that it can do DMA above 4G while it actually can't. Can you test the attached patch? Makes sense now. Gladly check the patch. Checking ... Great news: everything just works without any parameters :-)). True

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-08 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Srihari Vijayaraghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With your patch, with 4 GB of RAM, all SATA drives are detected working normally. For the record dmesg is attached. Whoops. This time around dmesg is really attached. (the -ahci in the kernel version

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-08 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: --- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It just seems sb600 claims that it can do DMA above 4G while it actually can't. Can you test the attached patch? [...] With your patch, with 4 GB of RAM, all

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-08 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Just in case, can you post the result of 'lspci -nntv'? No worries. Here it is as an attachment. Thanks Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -[:00]-+-00.0 ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:7910]

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-07 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: [...] Thank you for your insight into the problem. If there are any tricks involved in making use of all 4 GB of RAM with SATA drives with system stability, I'll be very happy to learn them :-)). It might