Okay, preferred method is the bitfield, not #ifdef.

I’ll get a patch done soon and submit.

On Nov 22, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 02:06:48PM -0600, Edwin Amsler wrote:
>> Hey there,
>> 
>> This e-mail is about design and custom arch-specific code.
>> 
>> I?m trying to author a patch from Bitrig to enable proper support for AHCI 
>> in the SUNXI ARMv7 port. There?s a bit of a quirk in how SUNXI handles DMA 
>> from what I understand of the patch. I think it may only affect the A10, but 
>> that?s outside the scope of this e-mail.
>> 
>> The fix is a series of patches, but the first one is going to be the tough 
>> since the change nestled inside ahci_port_start() in sys/dev/ic/ahci.c. 
>> Here?s the web-view of the patch: (let me know if you need me to provide a 
>> diff for readability)
>> https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/commit/6342a27bfe4dc590f8e266e370f54846a766a737
>> 
>> Now, I don?t care about the original author?s implementation choice, 
>> everyone is justified in their own actions. What I want to know is what 
>> needs to be done to increase the chances this will be committed by you folks.
>> 
>> To be honest, I?d prefer to #ifdef the custom initialization based on target 
>> platform and clean up the ahci_softc.sc_flags bit field. Is everyone on 
>> board for that? Is there a better way?
> 
> The quirk bit should just be set in arch/armv7/sunxi/sxiahci.c
> Change
> sc->sc_flags |= AHCI_F_NO_PMP; /* XXX enough? */
> to
> sc->sc_flags |= AHCI_F_NO_PMP | AHCI_F_SUNXI_QUIRK;
> 
> That is how bitrig did it as well.
> 
> Some of the other register access changes in the sxiahci.c part of
> https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/commit/9859ab07da261ebb4f561ff2b5bc5802b63ac57c
> may be of interest as well.


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