Like the Asus M2A-VM, MSI's K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376) can also support 64bit
DMA. It is a new enough board that all the BIOS releases work correctly with
64bit DMA enabled.
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <mdnelson8@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ata/ahci.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ata/ahci.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/ata/ahci.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/ata/ahci.c
@@ -2726,6 +2726,30 @@ static bool ahci_sb600_enable_64bit(stru
},
.driver_data = "20071026", /* yyyymmdd */
},
+ /*
+ * All BIOS versions for the MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376)
+ * support 64bit DMA.
+ *
+ * BIOS versions earlier than 1.5 had the Manufacturer DMI
+ * fields as "MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD".
+ * This spelling mistake was fixed in BIOS version 1.5, so
+ * 1.5 and later have the Manufacturer as
+ * "MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD".
+ * So try to match on DMI_BOARD_VENDOR of "MICRO-STAR INTER".
+ *
+ * BIOS versions earlier than 1.9 had a Board Product Name
+ * DMI field of "MS-7376". This was changed to be
+ * "K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376)" in version 1.9, but we can still
+ * match on DMI_BOARD_NAME of "MS-7376".
+ */
+ {
+ .ident = "MSI K9A2 Platinum",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR,
+ "MICRO-STAR INTER"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "MS-7376"),
+ },
+ },
{ }
};
const struct dmi_system_id *match;
@@ -2737,18 +2761,24 @@ static bool ahci_sb600_enable_64bit(stru
!match)
return false;
+ if (!match->driver_data)
+ goto enable_64bit;
+
dmi_get_date(DMI_BIOS_DATE, &year, &month, &date);
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%04d%02d%02d", year, month, date);
- if (strcmp(buf, match->driver_data) >= 0) {
- dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev, "%s: enabling 64bit DMA\n",
- match->ident);
- return true;
- } else {
+ if (strcmp(buf, match->driver_data) >= 0)
+ goto enable_64bit;
+ else {
dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev, "%s: BIOS too old, "
"forcing 32bit DMA, update BIOS\n", match->ident);
return false;
}
+
+enable_64bit:
+ dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev, "%s: enabling 64bit DMA\n",
+ match->ident);
+ return true;
}
static bool ahci_broken_system_poweroff(struct pci_dev *pdev)
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