Does anyone know if support for the Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset has yet made it into the stable branch? (Is release 4.9 likely to have it?) I am mainly interested in the IDE and "native" serial ATA devices. There is also a new Intel ethernet controller chip, 82547EI, that is designed to interface directly with the 875P chip. The currently supported chip list only goes up to the 82546. Is there a current version of the supported hardware notes for the freebsd-stable branch? Dan Strick strick@covad.net
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Dan Strick wrote:> Does anyone know if support for the Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset > has yet made it into the stable branch? (Is release 4.9 likely to have > it?) I am mainly interested in the IDE and "native" serial ATA devices. > There is also a new Intel ethernet controller chip, 82547EI, that is > designed to interface directly with the 875P chip. The currently > supported chip list only goes up to the 82546. > > Is there a current version of the supported hardware notes for the > freebsd-stable branch?I'm tracking RELENG_5_1 at home on my desktop machine, which has an Abit IC7-G for the motherboard. The relevant bit here is that I upgraded that machine from RELENG_4 after I upgraded the hardware. It's been almost 2 months now, so my memory is hazy, but I think if you're going to run 4-S on it, you have to run ACPI. I can tell you that 5.1-R right off the CD was just fine with it (I did a binary upgrade then CVSup'd the (very few) changes to avoid issues like back when things went from a.out to ELF). Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote:> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:23:12 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> > Subject: Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset > > Does anyone know if support for the Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset > has yet made it into the stable branch? (Is release 4.9 likely to have > it?) I am mainly interested in the IDE and "native" serial ATA devices. > There is also a new Intel ethernet controller chip, 82547EI, that is > designed to interface directly with the 875P chip. The currently > supported chip list only goes up to the 82546. > > Is there a current version of the supported hardware notes for the > freebsd-stable branch?Funny you should ask. Last weekend I obtained a Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard with an 875P/ICH5 combo. A number of devices didn't work on 5.1-RELEASE. The devices which didn't work are the Intel Ethernet, SMBus, audio, and USB 2.0 controllers, and the Realtek ALC655 codec. I managed to get all of these working execpt the USB controller by doing some easy hacks to the source (not bad for my first shot at FreeBSD kernel code). There are various PRs for these issues, including: kern/52927 Ethernet controller kern/54176 Audio and ALC655 kern/55094 USB 2.0 controller I submitted a bug for the SMBus controller last night (before the USB 2.0 one listed above), but it seems a PR still hasn't been assigned. I hope I didn't accidentally cancel my send-pr submission. If you'd like my patches for all of these (except the USB 2.0 one, which doesn't work and I think might be totally wrong), just let me know. You'll probably have to stitch them into the source by hand unless you're running 5.1-RELEASE, but at least they'll be a reference to work from. Thanks, Brent -- Brent Casavant http://www.angeltread.org/ KD5EMB -.- -.. ..... . -- -... 44 54'24"N 93 03'21"W 907FASL EN34lv
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003, Brent Casavant wrote:> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:23:12 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> > > Subject: Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset > > > > Does anyone know if support for the Intel 875P/ICH5 motherboard chipset > > has yet made it into the stable branch? (Is release 4.9 likely to have > > it?) I am mainly interested in the IDE and "native" serial ATA devices. > > There is also a new Intel ethernet controller chip, 82547EI, that is > > designed to interface directly with the 875P chip. The currently > > supported chip list only goes up to the 82546. > > > > Is there a current version of the supported hardware notes for the > > freebsd-stable branch? > > Funny you should ask. Last weekend I obtained a Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 > motherboard with an 875P/ICH5 combo. A number of devices didn't > work on 5.1-RELEASE. > > The devices which didn't work are the Intel Ethernet, SMBus, audio, > and USB 2.0 controllers, and the Realtek ALC655 codec. I managed to > get all of these working execpt the USB controller by doing some > easy hacks to the source (not bad for my first shot at FreeBSD > kernel code).With Intel's 875PBZLK board, I've had no trouble at all with 5.1-R or -CURRENT. The GigE, PATA, SATA, and USB work for certain, although the SATA drives are detected as ATA-133. But Gigabyte uses different chips for some of these components, and as you point out, there are problems with these. The point is that there's nothing inherently incompatible about the i875 chipset itself. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to try 4.X on this box yet, so I can't say whether there are any issues there...
>>>>>>>> > On Sun, Aug 3, 2003, David Schultz wrote: > > With Intel's 875PBZLK board, I've had no trouble at all with 5.1-R > or -CURRENT. The GigE, PATA, SATA, and USB work for certain, > although the SATA drives are detected as ATA-133. > ... >>>>>>>>Did you [use the BIOS to] configure the PATA ports to work in "legacy" mode and "map" the SATA drives onto the PATA ports (a configuration option of the Intel ICH5 chip) so that they look like traditional IDE drives, or did you configure the PATA/SATA interfaces in "native" mode in which they look a lot like PCI devices to the OS? Dan Strick strick@covad.net