Subject: Re: Suggestions on booting a Thinkpad T60?
To: None <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
From: Havard Eidnes <he@uninett.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/05/2006 22:23:08
> ftp.netbsd.org:pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200606080000Z/i386/.
>
> I'm wondering if anybody else has had any success, hints, or advice o=
n
> how to proceed.  I'm hoping I can boot a custom kernel from from a US=
B
> memory drive.
>
> I was only able to capture the dmesg by typing onto a different machi=
ne.
> The ethernet is identified as:
>
>   pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
>   pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
>   vendor 0x8086 product 0x109a (ethernet network) at pci2 dev 0 funct=
ion 0 not configured

The ethernet should be supported in -current kernels after 10 Jun,
ref. cvs log of sys/dev/pci/if_wm.c.

> The disk controller is:
>
>   pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0
>   pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27b9 (rev. 0x02)
>   piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1
>   piixide0: Intel 82801GB/GR IDE Controller (ICH7) (rev. 0x02)
>   piixide0: bus-master DMS support present
>   piixide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
>   piixide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
>   atabus0 at piixide0 channel 0
>   piixide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
>   piixide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
>   vendor 0x8086 product 0x27c5 (SATA mass storage, interface 0x01, re=
vision 0x02) at pci0 dev 31 function 2 not configured
>   vendor 0x8086 product 0x27da (SMBus serial bus, revision 0x02) at p=
ci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured

The SATA part of the disk controller is not supported in -current
that I can see either, and I'm not sure what's required for it to
be supported either.  This is a so-called "AHCI" variant of the
controller.

Regards,

- H=E5vard