Roundup:Kernels with JMicron support (JMB363, 361, 360, 36x)

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:07 am Post subject:

pillsnotbills, try to append pci=nomsi, perhaps that works

in addition if you're using ~x86 (testing branch) update dhcpcd to the latest version (3.0.8 atm)

2.6.18-mm3 is known to have some problems (at least with sky2 network cards)

ok guys / girls, since I threw away my two old IDE-drives (they nearly caused my computer to burn down :evil:

) I now have no use for the JMicron controller (2 old HDDs replaced by 2 S-ATA-drives) ,

so could you please tell me if 2.6.20-rc2 or newer kernel works on amd64 in conjunction with Intel ICH / JMicron controller ??

I'm looking for a new kernel for "small gentoo", amd64 branch
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Cloim · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 99

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:

thanks!, so I decided to use 2.6.19 for the new "small gentoo" release (amd64) then,

I think for my system I'll stick to a kernel between 2.6.19 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm1

for the PIO-issue: have you checked your cable?

Andrew Morton just released 2.6.20-rc2-mm1, so you could give that "unstable" kernel a try :wink:

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Fire Hazard · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

@kernelOfTruth

I'm soon to be the owner of a new computer with pretty much the same set up as you (well use to have before your new SATA HDDs). Basically I'll have the P5W DH Deluxe/WIFI-AP with two IDE HDDs and IDE DVD-RW. Would you recommend just making the DVD-RW a SATA one (I haven't bought the burner yet). Then I could just forget about the JMicron and use the ICH7R only to get my system up and running. Then just wait for everything to be properly supported.

By the way what kernels, kernel options, grub options and patches combination works for your Marvell 88E8053 ethernet controller?

Thanks alot for the help. It seems like your the only person who know how to get the P5W DH to work with Linux on the net.
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject:

you don't really need a S-ATA dvd-drive, but the problems for you is the lack of ide-ports, so the answer is:

YES,

get yourself a good S-ata dvd-rw & connect the two IDE drives to the ICH7R,

the grub boot-options I use are:

"irqpoll" pci=nomsi

don't compile in the sky2 driver, compile it as a module so you can unload it, if it screws up :wink:

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Fire Hazard · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:49 am Post subject:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:47 am Post subject:

Fire Hazard · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

One last question. So on the 2.6.20-rc* branch, does the Mavelll 88E8053 PCI-e ethnet controllers work for you? Like you, I'll probably just work around the JMicron controller till it gets fixed down the road. But I got to have my internet up and working.

Thanks for all the help

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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject:

on amd64 / x86_64 / 64bit it seems to run flawlessly more than 8-14 hours even after some heavy upload & some normal download => works

under x86 it seems to hickup, I can't upload a big file (>=130 MB) & download big files at the same time, but the strange thing is, that I have to restart my router to "fix" it, so it doesn't seem to be caused by sky2 fault :roll:

=> status: n.a. :roll:

simply => "should work"
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

concerning sky2:

ok, it's still freaking out after big transfers & heavy traffic, even with 2.6.20-rc5,

"solution": reload the module
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stoil · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject:

Yesss ! Just managed to boot in my fresh kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r3 amd64

Previously tried with 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 without luck.

bumby · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

I can't seem to get this to work.
I've got a p5b board, with the evil jmicron controller. I have only one ide (pata) harddrive connected (no dvd/cdrom).
I've tried loads of different kernel configurations now, http://pastebin.ca/257645 (posted by someone in this thread, don't remember who, sorry ;) ) for instance.

--
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unkown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
--

booted with grub using
root (hd1,0) [had the kernel on a usb-memory, hence not hd0,0]
kernel /bzIamage root=/dev/hda1

I've tried with sda1 too, same thing. Even rewrote the do_mounts.c kernel code a little to make it try hda-g and sda-g, and all failed :(

It seems that most people have their system on sata discs and are only having problems getting their optical drives to work. Am I the only one with an one of these old ide haddrives? :)

Any help is welcome, it sucks not having an operating system on this new hardware :/

[edit]
ops, almost forgot. Using linux 2.6.19

begonia · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

Lucky for me, I seemed to have no problem with the JMicron SATA drive -- it works on my PC with a stock gentoo 2.6.19 kernel.

What I would like to get working, tho, is the ability to remap memory so that I can see all four gigs of my memory. With my current kernel and remapping turned off in the bios, my machine is running great, but I can only see 3 gigs of RAM. If I turn on the remapping in the bios, I can't boot.

It's definitely doable, because the Small Gentoo disk works out of the box, and Ubuntu's install disk works, too. Both allow me to turn on remapping and see all 4 gigs RAM.

I've tried patching the kernel and using the config as on these web pages, but I guess I'm not smart enough to make it work.

Has anyone encountered this, and is there a simple solution that I am missing?

shiver · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 10

JMicron PATA is broken AGAIN for me, I can't believe this. I already had it working up to 2.6.20-git5. Because of sky2 problems I tried 2.6.20-git15 where booting would take minutes, throwing this crap on the screen. After it has booted, the drives connected to JMicron aren't available. I just tried 2.6.21-rc2 and it's still not working. This is what I get. I don't know if the ACPI errors are related, I don't get them with older kernels either.

[ 45.694926] ACPI Error (dsopcode-0481): Attempt to CreateField of length zero [20070126]
[ 45.695025] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node c20ef4dc), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 45.695172] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.CHN0.DRV0._GTF] (Node c20ef6f8), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 45.695320] ata7.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[ 45.868834] ACPI Error (dsopcode-0481): Attempt to CreateField of length zero [20070126]
[ 45.868931] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node c20ef4dc), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 45.869078] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.CHN0.DRV0._GTF] (Node c20ef6f8), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 45.869226] ata7.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[ 46.023538] ACPI Error (dsopcode-0481): Attempt to CreateField of length zero [20070126]
[ 46.023636] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node c20ef4dc), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 46.023783] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.CHN0.DRV0._GTF] (Node c20ef6f8), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 46.023931] ata7.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 46.198474] ACPI Error (dsopcode-0481): Attempt to CreateField of length zero [20070126]
[ 46.198572] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node c20ef4dc), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 46.198719] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.CHN0.DRV0._GTF] (Node c20ef6f8), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE
[ 46.198867] ata7.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 46.198904] scsi7 : ata_piix
[ 46.362673] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x00010177
[ 46.363080] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM LG DVD-ROM DRD8160B 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 46.368205] scsi 6:0:1:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4040B A301 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 46.368369] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.1[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 46.368457] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.1 to 64
[ 46.368481] ata9: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019c00 ctl 0x00019882 bmdma 0x00019400 irq 16
[ 46.368554] ata10: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019800 ctl 0x00019482 bmdma 0x00019408 irq 16
[ 46.368614] scsi8 : pata_jmicron
[ 46.525312] ata9.00: ATA-5: MAXTOR 6L080J4, A93.0500, max UDMA/133
[ 46.525351] ata9.00: 156355584 sectors, multi 0: LBA
[ 46.528365] ata9.01: ATA-5: IC35L120AVVA07-0, VA6OA52A, max UDMA/100
[ 46.528403] ata9.01: 241254720 sectors, multi 0: LBA
[ 77.065462] ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[ 77.065505] ata9.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[ 77.065544] ata9: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 112.853475] ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[ 112.853518] ata9.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[ 112.853559] ata9.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100:PIO3
[ 112.853606] ata9: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 148.641487] ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[ 148.641530] ata9.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[ 148.641569] ata9.00: disabled
[ 148.641615] ata9: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 153.732085] ata9.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40)
[ 153.732124] ata9: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 189.517063] ata9.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[ 189.517106] ata9.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[ 189.517146] ata9.01: limiting speed to UDMA/100:PIO3
[ 189.517194] ata9: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 225.302022] ata9.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[ 225.302065] ata9.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[ 225.302104] ata9.01: disabled
[ 225.811983] scsi9 : pata_jmicron
[ 225.977110] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x00019807

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject:

could you file a bug-report on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/, if not already done?

I no longer work with the JMicron-controller, otherwise I would have done it

that's really bad news

have you tried 2.6.21-rc3, I think there were some commits to pata_jmicron in the meantime ...
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

dreamerme · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 5

Hi, I'm planning to get the MSI G965M which has a Jmicron JM20335 chip, not the JMB36x types. Anyone knows if this chip is supported? Googling for "linux jm20335" gives no useful result. Thanks.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: