Migrating from 2.6.11 to 2.6.23 breaks pci-e with LSI 1068 SAS chip

[Siva Prasad]

Kumar,

We are using it onboard, not as add-on card. But I am sure there must be
PCI-E to SAS PCI cards based on LSI SAS controllers.

I just googled....
http://cgi.ebay.com/LSI-LSISAS3080X-R-8-Port-3Gb-s-SAS-PCI-X-Host-Bus-Ad
apt_W0QQitemZ220243588314QQihZ012QQcategoryZ90715QQcmdZViewItem?refid=st
ore

- Siva


-----Original Message-----
From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:37 AM
To: Siva Prasad
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Migrating from 2.6.11 to 2.6.23 breaks pci-e with LSI 1068
SAS chip

Is the LSI chipset something you guys have on an add-on card  
(something we can put into a reference board) or is hard wired into  
your boards?

If its an add on card a pointer to one would be appreciated.

- k

On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Siva Prasad wrote:

> I am also having problems with PCI-E device LSI 1064E on 2.6.24-rc6
> kernel. This is running on 8641D processor.
>
> I can see the device, access the config space, but seems access from
> device to memory is not working. Same device (same exact hardware)  
> works
> fine for 2.6.15 kernel.
>
> - Siva
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:30:35 -0500
> From: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> Subject: Re: Migrating from 2.6.11 to 2.6.23 breaks pci-e with LSI
> 	1068 SAS	chip
> To: Vince Asbridge <vasbridge at sanblaze.com>
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Message-ID: <D7261455-1BB8-44E7-940D-84C207A40CA7 at kernel.crashing.org>
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>
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Vince Asbridge wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm new to this mailing list, but have not had any luck finding
>> information on this issue.
>>
>> Please be kind if I break the forum rules on my first post.
>>
>> We recently tried to upgrade our Freescale CDS 8548 look-alike
>> module (code name ATCA1000) from the 2.6.11 based BSP to the 2.6.23
>> based BSP.
>>
>> The upgrade went fairly smoothly, until we tried using SOME pci-e
>> devices (some work fine, some don't show up to lspci).
>>
>> LSI pci-e controllers no longer show up at all!
>>
>> We see the ixgbe (intel 10G), SiliconImage SATA controller but do
>> not see LSI devices (Specifically 1068 SAS, FC949-E fibrechannel).
>>
>> We're guessing it's a resource issue behind the bridge, because the
>> LSI devices try to allocate 1 - 3M behind the bridge, but we can't
>> find the bug, or where we would debug such an issue.
>>
>> The devices seem to "train" correctly, because we have an LED on the
>> pci-e switch (PLX 8 port pci-e switch), and it's ON indicating pci-e
>> link between the bridge and the 1068 device).
>>
>> We're totally at a loss as to why this always worked on the 2.6.11
>> kernel but doesn?t work on 2.6.23.
>>
>> Using lspci, the LSI adapters do not show up in the list at all, as
>> though they are not plugged into the system.
>>
>> Is there something that needs to be done with respect to PCI-E
>> devices that is new in the 2.6.23 based BSP that did not need to be
>> done in the 2.6.11 based kit?  For example, are pci resources
>> allocated by a different piece of code, that may have some issue
>> allocating resources for the LSI adapters?
>>
>>
>>
> Can you tree 2.6.25?  There are some fixes in that kernel related to
> PCIe support:
>
> [POWERPC] FSL: Rework PCI/PCIe support for 85xx/86xx
>
> However, its odd that lspci doesn't even show the device.  Are you
> using u-boot?  if so what version? and does u-boot see the LSI?
>
> - k
>
>
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