o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules.
This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata"
to get the base support, and then one or more of the device
subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid".
All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you
dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems.
o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix
the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove
so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done
without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible.
o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/
removed in /dev accordingly.
NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature:
Promise and Silicon Image for now.
On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is
still needed.
o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID.
o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these
metadata formats:
"Adaptec HostRAID"
"Highpoint V2 RocketRAID"
"Highpoint V3 RocketRAID"
"Intel MatrixRAID"
"Integrated Technology Express"
"LSILogic V2 MegaRAID"
"LSILogic V3 MegaRAID"
"Promise FastTrak"
"Silicon Image Medley"
"FreeBSD PseudoRAID"
o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc.
o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc
NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h,
make world will take care of that.
NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as
the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the
array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild
the array.
o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust.
o The timeout code has been overhauled for races.
o Support of new chipsets.
o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and
reviewing the old code.
Missing or changed features from current ATA:
o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its
much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk
and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made
anymore, maybe for that exact reason.
o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats,
not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means
that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be
created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing
write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given
controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist
for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have
different formats and its impossible to tell which one.
The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those
formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it.
However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays
properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list.
o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this
will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for
questions.
HW donated by: Webveveriet AS
HW donated by: Frode Nordahl
HW donated by: Yahoo!
HW donated by: Sentex
Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
Failure to do this will result in following ata_pio_read() calls walking
off the end of the read buffer.
This resolves the "memory modified after free" panics common with Thinkpads
and CD/DVD drives.
Submitted by: Nate Lawson <nate AT root.org>
idle the 'mask' variable could be set to 0, resulting in the timeout loop
running for the full 31 seconds.
Handling this case eliminates long hangs on resume on some systems.
Submitted by: Nate Lawson <nate AT root.org>
providing special version of CDIOCREADSUBCHANNEL ioctl(), which assumes that
result has to be placed into kernel space not user space. In the long run
more generic solution has to be designed WRT emulating various ioctl()s
that operate on userspace buffers, but right now there is only one such
ioctl() is emulated, so that it makes little sense.
MFC after: 2 weeks
the ATA pccard locking function. This makes pccard devices like
Compact Flash cards work again.
PR: kern/72805
Submitted by: James E. Flemer <jflemer@alum.rpi.edu>
MFC in: 2 days
This also adds support for bigger disks on the controller I have access to,
and maybe others if I understood the adhoc methods used on those.
Those with more PC98 bigdrive controllers it is hereby invited to add/fix
support for those in geom_pc98.c and not using #ifdef PC98 all over the place.
mutexes instead.
This closes the last (known) race issues in ATA which should fix
the various hangs etc seen on heavy loaded systems.
Change from using timeout functions to using callout functions in
the timeout code. This together with above closes the race that could
happen if timeout and device interrupt occured simultaniously.
Also fix the possible recursion in ata_reinit() on very dodgy
devices that could take us down in the probe.
This make "_NEC" devices appear as "NEC" which is more corrent.
The reason is tha NEC originally screwed up on the byteorder in the
model string, so now that they have realized that they prefixed the '_'
so that not every ATA driver on the planet would call them "EN C" :)
In places where we have long delays that doesn't depend on too accurate
timing, use ata_udelay() instead of DELAY() so we dont uselessly spin
the CPU if not nessesary;
