...cinap_lenrek@gmx.de Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI Date: Sun, 24 Feb...MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3fefde48 ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL D945PRN 0x00000032 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3fefcf10 ... 0x01000013) @ 0x3fefce10 ACPI: WDDT (v001 INTEL D945PRN 0x00000032 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3fef7f90 ... 0x01000013) @ 0x3fef7f10 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL D945PRN 0x00000032 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x00000000 ...

... be to boot linux with mp interrupts to troll dmesg for clues and compare with where we're looking. perhaps someone else has a better idea. in looking at the mp spec 1.4 again http://download.intel.com/design/archives/processors/pro/docs/24201606.pdf plan 9 seems to cover the cases on p. 38 in pc/archmp.c:/^mpsearch. i wonder if that else shouldn't be elided. another way for bios to ...

....04.01 8086/244e 255 Intel Corporation 82801DB Hub Interface to ...:00000001 16 4:000020b1 16 Intel Corporation 0.31.2: disk ...:000020e1 16 4:000020a1 16 Intel Corporation 82801 82801 GB Serial .../27da 10 4:00002001 32 Intel Corporation 82801G SMBus Controller 4...00001041 64 2:44000000 131072 Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0...44020000 4096 1:00001001 64 Intel Corporation boot without *nomp=1...

... P4 Dualcore and MP, Network and AHCI doesnt work out of the box...> ok, i try to resolve AHCI first... the pci ids are 0x8086...the options are Enhanced mode with Ahci enabled. they're different for esb southbridges. intel says that the 82801gb does not support ahci mode. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-020644.htm ich7 should support your drives in *...

... P4 Dualcore and MP, Network and AHCI doesnt work out of the box. ok, i try to resolve AHCI first... the pci ids are 0x8086/... the options are Enhanced mode with Ahci enabled. they're different for esb southbridges. intel says that the 82801gb does not support ahci mode. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-020644.htm ich7 should support your drives in *ata* ...

Have tried Plan9 on Intel D945PLrn mainboard P4 Dualcore and MP, Network and AHCI doesnt work out of the box. ok, i try to resolve AHCI first... the pci ids are 0x8086/0x27c0 for the SATA controller (82801GB) and i tried to add this to the match function as Tich in sdiahci.c, but this fails on: if (p->mem[Abar].bar == 0) continue; SATA mode is on [Enhanced] not...

>> i feel your pain. i have a new motherboard with some bad entries in the mp table, too. Not surprising. What we see, all the time, is that the mobo makers just barely understand these tables, and usually get them quite wrong. We've also seen cases where the MP table for one board was used, verbatim, on a very different board. Finally, the vendors are always willing to ...

> Short form: PC hardware is crap. Caveat emptor. I thought we lived in a world that aimed to please the consumer... ++L

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 8:29 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote: i feel your pain. i have a new motherboard with some bad entries in the mp table, too. Not surprising. What we see, all the time, is that the mobo makers just barely understand these tables, and usually get them quite wrong. We've also seen cases where the MP table for one board was used, verbatim, on ...

> This machine also fails MP. I get mpintrenable() errors for any devices including the keyboard and then i end up on the boot prompt unable to type anything. mpintrenable: out of choices -1 -1 generally this means that your machine's mp table is broken. you can add *nomp=1 yep, that works then it's highly likely that your mp table is ...