linux-kernel - Re: Patch to make VIA sata board bootable again.

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Date:	Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:48:51 +0300
From:	Johnny Strom <johnny.strom@....fi>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>
Subject: Re: Patch to make VIA sata board bootable again.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:15:17 +0300
> Johnny Strom <johnny.strom@....fi> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Hello
>>
>>The quirks.c update that went into 2.6.16.17 made an VIA machine here 
>>non bootable from an sata drive (via_sata), the error is:
>>
>>"ATA1 qc timout"
>>"Failed to set xfermode".
> 
> 
> argh.
> 
> Does 2.6.18-rc5 work?
> 

No it is the same problem with 2.6.18-rc5.

> 
>>And later kernel panic becouse no sata disk was found.
>>I tracked it down to the quirk update in 2.6.16.17. Below is a patch 
>>against 2.6.17.11 that reverses the uppdate and makse the system 
>>bootable again.
>>
>>Another option is to find out the PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA for the motherboard 
>>in question but I could not get that info. Dose someone have an idea how 
>>to find that info? then I can provide an patch that adds the right 
>>PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA for my motherboard.
>
> 
> That's wordwrapped.
> 

Attached an new diff.


    Johnny

View attachment "quirks.c-via-fix.diff" of type "text/x-patch" (1094 bytes)