[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

Initial support for MSI MS-7135 (K8N Neo3) mainboard.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan A. Kollasch

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

[David Hendricks]

Whoa, I don't know how I let this one slip by... Did you manage to get SATA
working, by chance? That was a show stopper for me, but I haven't been able
to diagnose it.

2007/12/6 :
> Initial support for MSI MS-7135 (K8N Neo3) mainboard.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan A. Kollasch

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:06:15AM -0800, David Hendricks wrote:
> Whoa, I don't know how I let this one slip by... Did you manage to get SATA
> working, by chance? That was a show stopper for me, but I haven't been able
> to diagnose it.

I did not get the second set of two SATA ports working, but I did
get the first set working.  Also, I didn't get the audio to work.

Sure, I could spend centuries twiddling the PCI Configuration Space,
but that doesn't seem like my idea of fun.  Reading publicly available
documentation seems like a lot more fun.  ;-)   So, basically, I'm
saying it's beyond my power to fix.  Unless NVIDIA is going to have
a change of heart on Valentines Day.  But I'm not holding my breath.

Sigh.
> 2007/12/6 :
> > Initial support for MSI MS-7135 (K8N Neo3) mainboard.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan A. Kollasch

Jonathan Kollasch

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:36:26AM -0600, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:06:15AM -0800, David Hendricks wrote:
> > Whoa, I don't know how I let this one slip by... Did you manage to get SATA
> > working, by chance? That was a show stopper for me, but I haven't been able
> > to diagnose it.
>
> I did not get the second set of two SATA ports working, but I did
> get the first set working.  Also, I didn't get the audio to work.

Aha. This is another example of the ck804 sata issues.

You may want to have a look at this

ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/linuxbios/h8dce/SOURCE

That's another ck804-based board, and I suspect that all sata ports on both
controllers work there.

Thanks,
Ward.

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:36:26AM -0600, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:06:15AM -0800, David Hendricks wrote:
> > Whoa, I don't know how I let this one slip by... Did you manage to get SATA
> > working, by chance? That was a show stopper for me, but I haven't been able
> > to diagnose it.
>
> I did not get the second set of two SATA ports working, but I did
> get the first set working.  Also, I didn't get the audio to work.

Huh, well, I now have *all* the SATA ports working. I also fixed the
audio.

The magic with the audio is to `#define CK804_USE_ACI 1`.  This
should fix any ck804 board with audio, probably including the a8n-e.

I should probably update the patch and get it to work with coreboot
v2 svn.

Jonathan Kollasch

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

[David Hendricks]

Have you benchmarked SATA performance? I'm curious if you can run a quick
"time dd" kind of benchmark. I was only getting around 2MB/sec. Then again,
I had not applied this magic at the time.

On Feb 1, 2008 3:51 PM,  wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:36:26AM -0600, [e-mail] wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:06:15AM -0800, David Hendricks wrote:
> > > Whoa, I don't know how I let this one slip by... Did you manage to get
>
> SATA
> > > working, by chance? That was a show stopper for me, but I haven't been
>
> able
> > > to diagnose it.
> >
> > I did not get the second set of two SATA ports working, but I did
> > get the first set working.  Also, I didn't get the audio to work.
>
> Huh, well, I now have *all* the SATA ports working. I also fixed the
> audio.
>
> The magic with the audio is to `#define CK804_USE_ACI 1`.  This
> should fix any ck804 board with audio, probably including the a8n-e.
>
> I should probably update the patch and get it to work with coreboot
> v2 svn.
>    Jonathan Kollasch

Unmerged mainboard targets in v2

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 01.02.2008 18:03, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> You may want to have a look at this
>
> ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/linuxbios/h8dce/SOURCE
>
> That's another ck804-based board, and I suspect that all sata ports on both
> controllers work there.

It would be great if someone could invest time to inspect all of
ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/linuxbios/ and tell us which unmerged boards we
can find there and which svn revision they are based on.

Maybe we can salvage a few targets and increase our supported base.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:29:17PM -0800, David Hendricks wrote:
> Have you benchmarked SATA performance? I'm curious if you can run a quick
> "time dd" kind of benchmark. I was only getting around 2MB/sec. Then again,
> I had not applied this magic at the time.

I get a normal 80mbyte/s or so out of it here.
I'd assume you had an interrupts issue.

Jonathan Kollasch

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] MSI MS-7135 (this time with attachment)

[David Hendricks]

That's very possible -- My pirq table didn't look nearly as nice as yours!

On Feb 2, 2008 11:45 AM,  wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:29:17PM -0800, David Hendricks wrote:
> > Have you benchmarked SATA performance? I'm curious if you can run a
>
> quick
> > "time dd" kind of benchmark. I was only getting around 2MB/sec. Then
>
> again,
> > I had not applied this magic at the time.
>
> I get a normal 80mbyte/s or so out of it here.
> I'd assume you had an interrupts issue.
>    Jonathan Kollasch