Thanks!  I have one of these AMD motherboards on order and having working
hotplug would be awesome.

Tim


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Matthew Dillon <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> commit 5502cf2442bc10db6925a4db0956131ae634ec95
> Author: Matthew Dillon <[email protected]>
> Date:   Mon Nov 22 18:25:33 2010 -0800
>
>    kernel - AHCI hotplug work to help support AMD chipsets
>
>    * Change the Hot-plug mechanics to something which appears to work for
>      both NVidia and AMD AHCI chipsets, and hopefully Intel too (untested).
>
>      This appears to fix hot-plug for AMD's SB850-based AHCI (circa AM3
> socket
>      mobos).
>
>    * Basically the SCTL.DET and CMD.SUD bits control the behavior of the
>      SATA Phy, but in typical Intel fashion the specification is seriously
>      lacking on how events such as hot-plug are handled based on what state
>      the phy is in.
>
>      Previously we were looking for phy transition events while holding
>      the port in the RESET state (DET=1, SUD=1), which worked up till this
>      point.  But it doesn't work with AMD's SB850-based AHCI.
>
>      Now we are attempting to do the same thing with the port in
>      the SPIN-UP/NORMAL state (DET=0, SUD=1).
>
>    * The AHCI documentation wants us to use the LISTEN mode (DET=0, SUD=0)
>      and get a SERR.DIAG.X event for hot-plug but this doesn't seem to work
>      very reliably.  In fact, 10.10.4 is ambiguous for the case
>      where Staggered-spin-up is not supported since SUD is wired to '1'
>      in that case (making LISTEN mode impossible).
>
> Summary of changes:
>  sys/dev/disk/ahci/ahci.c |   96
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>
>
> http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/5502cf2442bc10db6925a4db0956131ae634ec95
>
>
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