Re: [driver-discuss] nv_sata for nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:41:25 -0700 


On Mar 29, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Marty Faltesek wrote:


On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 12:18 +0100, Nicholas Brealey wrote:

The nv_sata driver supports the CK804  and  MCP55 SATA HBA adapters
(pci10de,37f , pci10de,55 and pci10de,54) but I have a MCP51 SATA HBA
adapter (see below).
1) Is there some way I can tell the OpenSolaris 2008.11 Live CD to use 
the nv_sata for this device?
(Something like the following the instructions at
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/techtips/assign_device_to_driver.jsp) . 

2) Would it be wise to try the nv_sata dirver with the MCP51 or are
there some problems with this device which would need workarounds in the 
driver?


It works: the MCP51 pci id is being added to the next onnv build


...and here's the relevant putback info:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-March/008994.html
Judging from the putback diff, the only changes were to make a few data types and function names more generic (eg; mcp5x... instead of mcp55...) so I bet if Nicholas just adds the PCI ID of the MCP51 SATA HBA (pci10de,266) to his driver_alias, it will even work with a current onnv build: 

update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,266"' nv_sata

/dale
3) Is there any compelling reason to use the SATA driver instead of the 
PATA driver?


hotplug and maybe performance
4) I only have Solaris 10 10/08 on my hard disk because it won't coexist with OpenSolaris. Would it be safe to create a new ZFS boot environment using live upgrade and use a modified version of the postinstall script 
from SUNWnv-sata to fix the system? (Using the standard live upgrade
procedure to fallback to a previous boot environment if things go wrong). 

try it and see.  Seems like it would work.



Thanks

Nick

# /usr/X11/bin/scanpci
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x02f0 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x01: vendor 0x10de device 0x02fa 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x02: vendor 0x10de device 0x02fe 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x03: vendor 0x10de device 0x02f8 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x04: vendor 0x10de device 0x02f9 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x05: vendor 0x10de device 0x02ff 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x06: vendor 0x10de device 0x027f 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x07: vendor 0x10de device 0x027e 
 nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x02fc 
 nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x03 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x02fd 
 nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0241 
 nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE]
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0270 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0260 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x01: vendor 0x10de device 0x0264 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x026d 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0b function 0x01: vendor 0x10de device 0x026e 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0d function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0265 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0e function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0266 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0f function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0267 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x10 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x026f 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x10 function 0x01: vendor 0x10de device 0x026c 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x14 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0269 
 nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x18 function 0x00: vendor 0x1022 device 0x1100 
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport
Technology Configuration
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x18 function 0x01: vendor 0x1022 device 0x1101 
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x18 function 0x02: vendor 0x1022 device 0x1102 
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x18 function 0x03: vendor 0x1022 device 0x1103 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 
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