Re: [9fans] ahci and intel gbe

[Quintile <steve@quintile.net>]

what motherboard and model did you use. it would be good to buy something known to work.

 I am afraid have had less success with 9atom on old hardware.

Steve



> On 28 Jan 2015, at 05:43, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> 
> i'm quite happy to report that this new haswell hardware worked the first time
> with nix 64 bit.  the ahci stuff should "just work" due to the standard, but the
> i210 gbe was entered speculatively, and it's pretty nice that it just seems to
> work.
> 
> so don't let 'em tell you "plan 9 only works with older hardware".  :-)
> 
> ; pci -v 0.17.4 0.31.2
> 0.17.4:    disk 01.06.01 8086/8d62  11 0:0000f111 16 1:0000f101 16 2:0000f0f1 16 3:0000f0e1 16 4:0000f021 32 5:fb438000 2048
>    Intel Corporation    C610/X99 series chipset sSATA Controller [AHCI mode] 
> 0.31.2:    disk 01.06.01 8086/8d02  11 0:0000f071 16 1:0000f061 16 2:0000f051 16 3:0000f041 16 4:0000f001 32 5:fb432000 2048
>    Intel Corporation    C610/X99 series chipset 6-Port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] 
> 
> ; pci -v 7.0.0 8.0.0
> 7.0.0:    net  02.00.00 8086/1533  11 0:fb200000 524288 2:0000d001 32 3:fb280000 16384
>    Intel Corporation    I210 Gigabit Network Connection 
> 8.0.0:    net  02.00.00 8086/1533  10 0:fb100000 524288 2:0000c001 32 3:fb180000 16384
>    Intel Corporation    I210 Gigabit Network Connection 
> 
> - erik