On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Gary Jennejohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:49:52 -0400 > "Alexander Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Gary Jennejohn < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > I can't speak to this, but why not use a board which is already known > > > to work? I'm using a Gigabyte M61P-S3 myself. > > > > > > > I think that drivers from ASUS ( > > > > http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-en&model=M2N-SLI%20Deluxe > ) > > > may not work with FreeBSD? > > > > > > > > > > These are guaranteed not to work, unless you want to port the Linux > > > drivers. > > > > > > I see that 7.0-RELEASE has ATA Nvidia chipset support. Does that not > cover > > the SATA nvidia chipsets of their unified MCP chipset? I'm just curious > if > > this could be fixed by adding this particular chipset PCI information to > > struct ata_nvidia_ident in sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c. It looks MCP55 is > > certainly supported but again I'm stabbing slightly in the dark since I > > don't know SATA NV. > > > > Sorry if this is totally off. I'm new to the FreeBSD kernel but not > SATA > > driver development in general. Its just a thought... > > > > Well, according to "man ata" the nforce[23] MCP (among other nvidia > chipsets) are supported. My motherboard has MCP61 which works just fine. > But I'm no expert on nvidia chip sets and can't really evaluate whether > just adding the PCI information will work. > Yea I don't know either since I don't have an Nvidia spec laying around in front of me! What I would do is cross reference the PCI BoardId in the Linux SATA NV chipset driver and see if its supported. If so, there is a good chance that by adding the proper PCI information the ata infrastructure would just take over. Again, I don't know the exact MCP this motherboard is using. Cheers! -aps -- "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
