Regarding PATCH for ITE887x Serial

I have tried:

Debian 5
Fedora Live CD 11
Ubuntu 8.10
CentOS 5.2 custom kernel from kernel.org with almost all modules enabled

Nothing recognizes it. All output is same on lspci.

I have CCed [email protected] as well with output of lspci -vv

02:0e.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016 (rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
       Region 0: I/O ports at 2440 [disabled] [size=64]
       Region 1: I/O ports at 2490 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 2: I/O ports at 2480 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 3: Memory at f2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 4: Memory at f2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 5: Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

[disabled] [size=4K]

My main server runs Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (CentOS 5.2)

I have attached the "drivers" they gave me for 2.6 kernel supposedly. Although i believe its for the 2.4 as the readme that it has its for 2.4 kernel.

Thanks

Regards,
Chris

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Quoted 3 lines · Christopher

Im currently compiling my own kernel use guide from
http://howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos

Site is down atm... Don't refresh your browser ;)

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Using the latest kernel from kernel.org and my current .config

You believe this will have the drivers needed?

Yes, that should work.

Please send me a little update on you success (or not).

Thanks,
Niels

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Thanks

Chris

Quoted 139 lines · Niels de Vos

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I have tried to install the kernel as you said:

[root@Server ~]# rpm -ivh --nodeps
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29/0.137.rc5.git4.fc11/i586/kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586.rpm

Retrieving
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29/0.137.rc5.git4.fc11/i586/kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586.rpm

Preparing...
###########################################
[100%]
1:kernel ###########################################
[100%]
WARNING: No module ehci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module ohci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module uhci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module ata_piix found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
Usage: new-kernel-pkg [-v] [--mkinitrd] [--rminitrd]

      [--initrdfile=<initrd-image>] [--depmod] [--rmmoddep]
      [--kernel-args=<args>] [--remove-args=<args>]
      [--banner=<banner>] [--multiboot=multiboot]
      [--mbargs=mbargs] [--make-default]
      <--install | --remove | --update> <kernel-version>
      (ex: new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.4.7-2)

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error: %posttrans(kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@Server ~]#

It fails to install the kernel.

Hmm, same here... Tried to create the initrd with mkinitrd but it won't detect my AHCI-drives... Unable to boot the system completely.

You might be able to create a working initrd manually, after installing the kernel with 'rpm -ivh --nodeps --noscripts ...'. However, easiest would be to update the mkinitrd-package to the required version and install the kernel after that.

Alternatively you might try an older version of the kernel 2.6.23+. Or download and try with a Fedora-10-Live CD/USB.

Hope that helps,
Niels

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Any ideas?

Thanks

Quoted 74 lines · Niels de Vos

Hello Chris,

Quoted 5 lines · Christopher

I have bought off ebay the 8port Serial DB9 adapter with ITE8871 chipset
and my CentOS5.1 with Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 does not seem to recognize it.

ITE887x hardware gets recognised with kernel 2.6.23 and newer. RHEL has
not included a backport for this driver (so CentOS also didn't).

I know some people use a Fedora kernel on CentOS. You can download the
most recent version from here:
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8>

I don't know if the RPM just installs like that (probably not). But for
some testing it should be okay to install the RPM with 'rpm -ivh --nodeps kernel....rpm'.

If the ports still don't work as expected, please re-post the output of
'lspci -vv' and the relevant parts from 'dmesg' to me with a CC to [email protected].

Good luck :)
Niels

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lspci -vv shows

02:0e.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016 (rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium

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TAbort-

<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
       Region 0: I/O ports at 2440 [disabled] [size=64]
       Region 1: I/O ports at 2490 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 2: I/O ports at 2480 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 3: Memory at f2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 4: Memory at f2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 5: Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

[disabled] [size=4K]

I saw online in a post from KernelTrap you wrote at
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/3/26/70429 that you
created a patch for this.

Since i have no idea from C language and how to load the driver can you
please let me know what to do to properly load the driver?

Thanks a lot for your time and assistance.

Chris

Hello Christopher,

Quoted 7 lines · Christopher

I have tried:

Debian 5
Fedora Live CD 11
Ubuntu 8.10
CentOS 5.2 custom kernel from kernel.org with almost all modules enabled

Great testing. The Fedora Live CD 11 contains a very recent kernel and should recognize all known (at least to me) ITE-chips.

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Nothing recognizes it. All output is same on lspci.

Not only lspci is important, also the output of dmesg (grep for tty) and the file /proc/ioports.

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I have CCed [email protected] as well with output of lspci -vv

02:0e.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016 (rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
       Region 0: I/O ports at 2440 [disabled] [size=64]
       Region 1: I/O ports at 2490 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 2: I/O ports at 2480 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 3: Memory at f2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 4: Memory at f2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 5: Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

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[disabled] [size=4K]

Compared this to one of the ITE-chips here. I'm not convinced this is a chip by ITE. Can you tell me the exact type of it887x (x=...)?

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My main server runs Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (CentOS 5.2)

I have attached the "drivers" they gave me for 2.6 kernel supposedly. Although i believe its for the 2.4 as the readme that it has its for 2.4 kernel.

This rough patch was available for kernel-2.4. As nobody But ITE could provide us (Wincor-Nixdorf) with drivers for kernel-2.6. I was assigned to implement the serial-part of the driver in 8250_pci.c.

Hope that helps,
Niels

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Thanks

Regards,
Chris

Quoted 186 lines · Niels de Vos

Quoted 4 lines · Christopher

Im currently compiling my own kernel use guide from
http://howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos

Site is down atm... Don't refresh your browser ;)

Quoted 5 lines

Using the latest kernel from kernel.org and my current .config

You believe this will have the drivers needed?

Yes, that should work.

Please send me a little update on you success (or not).

Thanks,
Niels

Quoted 157 lines

Thanks

Chris

Quoted 150 lines · Niels de Vos

Quoted 31 lines · Christopher

I have tried to install the kernel as you said:

[root@Server ~]# rpm -ivh --nodeps
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29/0.137.rc5.git4.fc11/i586/kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586.rpm

Retrieving
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29/0.137.rc5.git4.fc11/i586/kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586.rpm

Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:kernel ###########################################
[100%]
WARNING: No module ehci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module ohci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module uhci-hcd found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module ata_piix found for kernel 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
Usage: new-kernel-pkg [-v] [--mkinitrd] [--rminitrd]

      [--initrdfile=<initrd-image>] [--depmod] [--rmmoddep]
      [--kernel-args=<args>] [--remove-args=<args>]
      [--banner=<banner>] [--multiboot=multiboot]
      [--mbargs=mbargs] [--make-default]
      <--install | --remove | --update> <kernel-version>
      (ex: new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.4.7-2)

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error: %posttrans(kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@Server ~]#

It fails to install the kernel.

Hmm, same here... Tried to create the initrd with mkinitrd but it won't detect my AHCI-drives... Unable to boot the system completely.

You might be able to create a working initrd manually, after installing the kernel with 'rpm -ivh --nodeps --noscripts ...'. However, easiest would be to update the mkinitrd-package to the required version and install the kernel after that.

Alternatively you might try an older version of the kernel 2.6.23+. Or download and try with a Fedora-10-Live CD/USB.

Hope that helps,
Niels

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Any ideas?

Thanks

Quoted 81 lines · Niels de Vos

Hello Chris,

Quoted 6 lines · Christopher

I have bought off ebay the 8port Serial DB9 adapter with ITE8871 chipset
and my CentOS5.1 with Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 does not seem to recognize it.

ITE887x hardware gets recognised with kernel 2.6.23 and newer. RHEL has
not included a backport for this driver (so CentOS also didn't).

I know some people use a Fedora kernel on CentOS. You can download the
most recent version from here:
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8>

I don't know if the RPM just installs like that (probably not). But for
some testing it should be okay to install the RPM with 'rpm -ivh --nodeps kernel....rpm'.

If the ports still don't work as expected, please re-post the output of
'lspci -vv' and the relevant parts from 'dmesg' to me with a CC to [email protected].

Good luck :)
Niels

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lspci -vv shows

02:0e.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016 (rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium

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TAbort-

<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
       Region 0: I/O ports at 2440 [disabled] [size=64]
       Region 1: I/O ports at 2490 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 2: I/O ports at 2480 [disabled] [size=16]
       Region 3: Memory at f2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 4: Memory at f2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
       Region 5: Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

[disabled] [size=4K]

I saw online in a post from KernelTrap you wrote at
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/3/26/70429 that you
created a patch for this.

Since i have no idea from C language and how to load the driver can you
please let me know what to do to properly load the driver?

Thanks a lot for your time and assistance.

Chris