Re: Shuttle SN78SH7 - success, and starting AHCI driver port from OpenBSD.

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I've upgraded my test boxes to a new generation.  The Shuttle SN78SH7
>     barebones (meaning one must buy the cpu, memory, and drives separately),
>     with a Phenom x4 cpu pretty much just works.  Everything probes and
>     it boots up without complaint.  Dmesg output is here:
>
> 	http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/ShuttleSN78SH7.txt
>
>     This baby doesn't have any PS/2 connectors.  The keyboard/mouse is
>     all USB, and does appear to work just fine.
>
>     I also went with both a SATA HD and a SATA DVD-RW, so no IDE stuff at
>     all in my box.
>
>     I got the whole mess from newegg.com, it was delivered smartly and
>     ridiculously cheap for the horsepower it represents.  I already had
>     the hard drives.  Everything else came to less then $600 per box
>     (shuttle, cpu, memory, DVD-RW).
>
>     --
>
>     In anycase, the major reason for updating was to get some test boxes
>     worked up with native AHCI hardware so I can port the OpenBSD AHCI driver.
>
>     So I am now officially porting that driver and I expect to have it done
>     for our July release.  OpenBSD has a very nice implementation which fully
>     supports command queueing and being able to separate out the AHCI
>     support from the NATA driver will allow us to slowly phase-out the NATA
>     driver for all-SATA systems.  I also think we can get removable SATA
>     working (something we want since ESATA is becoming the new standard for
>     external hard drives).
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>

Matt,

Where will 'phaseout' leave natacontrol RAID et al?

Bill