[Soekris] ATA DMA success on net5501?

[Louis Mamakos]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <273083DD-24FB-4B6A-81C7-68A0AEC825A2 at transsys.com>,  
> Louis Mamakos w
> rites:
>
>> I just received a net5501 and am running FreeBSD 6.x (RELENG_6) on
>> it.  It has a 1GB CF card, and a 60GB ATA 2.5" IDE disk drive
>> installed.  I have problems with FreeBSD booting, hanging just after
>> the probe/attach of the two ATA disks, unless I disable the DMA in /
>> boot/loader.conf:
>
> Which bios version do you have ?
>
> There was a ATA DMA related issue until 1.32i (from memory).
>
> Poul-Henning

It identifies itself as "1.32i 20071005" when it powers-up/restarts.   
I don't
seem to have any problem with reboots hanging, just this DMA thing.

Alternately, is there a known-good minimal kernel config I ought to  
start
from?  I'm running a pretty recent RELENG_6 kernel; are there any known
problems there, or fixes not MFC'd from RELENG_7 or HEAD back into  
RELENG_6?

louie