Support for ICH7 controller in PowerBook Pro
    Scott Long 
    scottl at samsco.org
       
    Mon May 15 21:52:38 PDT 2006
    
    
  
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:24 -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>
>>> Søren Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tir, 2006-04-25 at 01:03 -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Søren,
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached please find small patch which adds support for 
>>>>> 82801GBM/GHM SATA controller found in intel-based Macs, 
>>>>> particularly in MacBook Pro.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please review & approve.
>>>>
>>>> I'll look into it, I think Intel has a few other new chips I should add
>>>> in the same go, give me a few days...
>>>
>>> Any progress with this? Few days have turned into few weeks, and I 
>>> don't want them turn into few months. :)
>>
>>
>> Be aware that I believe your patch is slightly wrong.  As far as I can
>> tell the chip ID you've added is the non-AHCI version.  I have the same
>> chip in my new Toshiba laptop, and submitted a more complete PR
>> (kern/97228) over the weekend.
> 
> 
> MacBook doesn't work with your patch - FreeBSD detects controller but 
> doesn't see any disks attached to it. :( Putting AHCI back solves the 
> problem.
> 
> I wonder if Intel has shipped two different controllers with the same 
> pci ids.
> 
That is highly unlikely.
Scott
    
    
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