[OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

[Chris]

On 2021-01-22 11:14, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:14:05AM -0800, Chris wrote:
>> 
>> OK here's a nice picture (screenshot) I was able to capture that
>> pretty well sums it up.
>> 
>> Driver is NOT the problem.
>> I think the only way I'm going to be able to install OI on this, is
>> by plugging my sata drive into a USB adapter, and install it there.
>> Then after installation. Plug the drive back into the sata port on
>> the MB. I thought OI had better sata support. It clearly understands
>> the controller.
>> 
>> Well. They say a Picture paints a thousand words:
>> https://bsdos.info/OI/Screenshot-2021-01-22-00-12-55.png
> 
> Your picture shows that it's using the nv_sata driver for the disk
> controller, not the ahci driver.  Are you able to configure the disk
> controllers into AHCI mode?  Doing that might fix your problem.  Most
> systems use the ahci driver now.  Here's how mine looks in OI:
> 
>     <mills at qtpie:1324>$ prtconf -D
>     ...
>                 pci1b21,1062, instance #0 (driver name: ahci)
>                     disk, instance #2 (driver name: sd)
>                     disk, instance #5 (driver name: sd)
>                     disk, instance #3 (driver name: sd)
>                     disk, instance #4 (driver name: sd)
> 
> As you can see, it uses two drivers, one for the controller and one
> for the disks.  Here's how my disks look in OI:
> 
>     <root at qtpie># format
>     ...
>            0. c5t0d0 <WDC-WDS120G2G0A-00JH30-UE360000 cyl 18687 alt 2 hd 224 
> sec 56>
>               /pci at 0,0/pci1022,1453 at 1,3/pci1b21,1062 at 0,1/disk at 0,0
>            1. c5t1d0 <WDC-WDS120G2G0A-00JH30-UE360000 cyl 18687 alt 2 hd 224 
> sec 56>
>               /pci at 0,0/pci1022,1453 at 1,3/pci1b21,1062 at 0,1/disk at 1,0
>            2. c5t2d0 <ATA-ST1000DM003-1ER162-CC45-931.51GB>
>               /pci at 0,0/pci1022,1453 at 1,3/pci1b21,1062 at 0,1/disk at 2,0
>            3. c5t3d0 <ATA-ST1000DM003-1ER162-CC45-931.51GB>
>               /pci at 0,0/pci1022,1453 at 1,3/pci1b21,1062 at 0,1/disk at 3,0
>     Specify disk (enter its number): ^D

Thanks for your input, Gary.
I don't have a specific setting for ahci. As a rule, when available,
I choose that. But it's simply not available.

Here's the output for mine

~
11:35am Fri, 22
OIDEV# prtconf -D

System Configuration:  MSI  i86pc
Memory size: 8192 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):

i86pc (driver name: rootnex)
     scsi_vhci, instance #0 (driver name: scsi_vhci)
     pci, instance #0 (driver name: npe)
         pci1462,7309
         isa, instance #0 (driver name: isa)
             motherboard
             pit_beep, instance #0 (driver name: pit_beep)
         pci1462,7309
         pci1462,7309
         pci1462,7309, instance #0 (driver name: ohci)
             hub, instance #0 (driver name: hubd)
                 device, instance #0 (driver name: usb_mid)
                     keyboard, instance #0 (driver name: hid)
                     mouse, instance #1 (driver name: hid)
         pci1462,7309, instance #0 (driver name: ehci)
         pci10de,3f3, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci)
         pci888,10ec
         pci1462,7309, instance #0 (driver name: nge)
         pci1462,7309, instance #0 (driver name: nv_sata)
             disk, instance #2 (driver name: sd)
         pci1462,7309, instance #1 (driver name: nv_sata)
         pci10de,3e8, instance #0 (driver name: pcieb)
             display, instance #0 (driver name: nvidia)
         pci10de,3e9 (driver name: pcieb)
         pci10de,3e9 (driver name: pcieb)
         pci1022,1200
         pci1022,1201
         pci1022,1202
         pci1022,1203
         pci1022,1204
     fw, instance #0 (driver name: acpinex)
         cpu, instance #0 (driver name: cpudrv)
         cpu, instance #1 (driver name: cpudrv)
         cpu, instance #2 (driver name: cpudrv)
         sb, instance #1 (driver name: acpinex)
     used-resources
     agpgart, instance #0 (driver name: agpgart)
     options, instance #0 (driver name: options)
     pseudo, instance #0 (driver name: pseudo)
     xsvc, instance #0 (driver name: xsvc)
     iscsi, instance #0 (driver name: iscsi)

~
11:37am Fri, 22
OIDEV# format

        0. c6t1d0 <ATA-ST3160318AS-HP34-149.05GB>
           /pci at 0,0/pci1462,7309 at 8/disk at 1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c6t1d0
[disk formatted]
/dev/dsk/c6t1d0s1 is part of active ZFS pool rpool. Please see zpool(1M).

Sorry for the long output to prtconf -D. But wasn't sure if it
wouldn't be interesting.

Thanks again for your input, Gary! :-)

--Chris
-- 
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX