[coreboot] [PATCH] fix all s2891 sata ports

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 22:00:26 CEST 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
>  > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:56:19PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
>  > >  > It works for me after applying the mptable fix for the s2892.  It now
>  > >  > sees a SATA port that it didn't used to.  Thanks.
>  > >  >
>  > >
>  > > > Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>
>  > >
>  > >  Thanks, r3253.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  > I don't have an s2891 to try it on.  Are there other boards we should
>  > >  > apply the fix to?  s2895 etc.
>  > >
>  > >  From the looks of it, these boards have the same bug:
>  > >
>  > >   tyan s2892
>  > >   tyan s2895
>  > >   sun ultra40
>  > >
>  > >  Since you've already tested an s2892, I'd be happy to supply a patch and you
>  > >  can ack it? Same for s2895 - you have that hardware right?
>  >
>  > Here's the patch for the s2892 that I used.  When my s2895 has some
>  > down time I'll can check it.  I'd feel fine about just committing it
>  > since it uses the same chipset and has the same problem.
>
>  Yeah. I agree. Want to make a patch?

Here's the patch for s2895 and ultra40.  It also changes some broken
white space in the s2892 and s2891 mptable.c files.

Thanks,
Myles

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

>  > I haven't. It's too bad you can't turn off multimode in the
>  > proprietary BIOS to see if that's really the issue
>
>  Yeah. I'm not sure it is. But *something* is going on here. If you get a
>  chance to run bonnie++ on your various other ck804 boards, that would be
>  great for comparison.

I'll try it soon.
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