to not allocate them after the recent ata channels enumeration changes.
It allows to save some resources, not bother user with unexisting hardware
and not check unimplemented ports status on every interrupt.
- specification claims that 1 second is just a maximum controller reset time;
implement controller reset properly to save almost 1 second of boot, and
about half second of resume time;
- enable channel interrupts only after channel status reset to fix duplicate
device creation on resume due to unwanted device connection event;
- as described in specification, wait for disk ready status after channel
power-up; it is not so important when disk already touched by BIOS, but
solves device not ready problems on resume and probably some other cases.
- uncomment channel stop/start on soft-reset as it is declared mandatory by
specification; it was commented due to some random drive detection problems
on VIA and JMicron controllers, but I hope it is fixed by previous point.
storage class. This check was lost. It is not important for the most cases,
but as it was reported on current@, it does important for sis driver and
surely inportant for AHCI driver. So restore it there.
Submitted by: Toshikazu ICHINOSEKI, Andrey V. Elsukov
Discussed on: current@
(still a power of 2) rather than 63k transfers. Even with 63k transfers
some machines (such as Dell SC1435's) were experiencing chronic data
corruption.
- Use the MIO method to talk to the Serverworks HT1000_S1 SATA controller
like all the other SATA controllers rather than the compat PATA
method. This lets the controller see all 4 SATA ports and also
matches the behavior of the Linux driver.
Silence from: sos
MFC after: 3 days
If you just config KERNEL as usual there should be no apparent changes, you'll get all chipset support code compiled in.
However there is now a way to only compile in code for chipsets needed on a pr vendor basis. ATA now has the following "device" entries:
atacore: ATA core functionality, always needed for any ATA setup
atacard: CARDBUS support
atacbus: PC98 cbus support
ataisa: ISA bus support
atapci: PCI bus support only generic chipset support.
ataahci: AHCI support, also pulled in by some vendor modules.
ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek, atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron, atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia, atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia; Vendor support, ie atavia for VIA chipsets
atadisk: ATA disk driver
ataraid: ATA softraid driver
atapicd: ATAPI cd/dvd driver
atapifd: ATAPI floppy/flashdisk driver
atapist: ATAPI tape driver
atausb: ATA<>USB bridge
atapicam: ATA<>CAM bridge
This makes it possible to config a kernel with just VIA chipset support by having the following ATA lines in the kernel config file:
device atacore
device atapci
device atavia
And then you need the atadisk, atapicd etc lines in there just as usual.
If you use ATA as modules loaded at boot there is few changes except the rename of the "ata" module to "atacore", things looks just as usual.
However under atapci you now have a whole bunch of vendor specific drivers, that you can kldload individually depending on you needs. Drivers have the same names as used in the kernel config explained above.
