system lockup - ata spurious interrupts - somehow updated

[Søren Schmidt]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Soren Schmidt writes:
> | That said, the ICH5 support is written "blindfolded" as I do not have
> | any such HW here in the lab. So if there is a problem with ATA on those,
> | someone with the HW and enough kernel clue should look into it (or
> | someone could land the needed HW in my lab, which could also bring
> | support for the SW RAID on intel's)...
> 
> I have some patches for ICH5 for the IDE and SATA parts of it based
> on stable.  I haven't ported them to -current yet but I should be
> starting to work on that soon.  I have patches for the 6300ESB ICH
> as well.  They are basically the same SW wise except for pci ids.
> 
> There is nothing major in the patches except for PCI id's and
> reading the DMA setup.  I do have tweaks that read the SATA status
> registers and which drives are mapped to which ports.  This prevents
> system lock ups when the SATA drives go away.
> 
> I just got my hands a system that looks like it might have the Intel
> RAID in BIOS stuff to play with. 

If you get anything done let me know so we can get it reviewed and 
possibly committed to -current. I dont have patches for the 6300 here 
locally as well, thats just PCI ids...

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-Søren