Re: SG2042 SATA (DMA?) issues

On 5/31/2026 11:05 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 2026-05-31 00:32:46, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> Has anyone tried the recent SG2042 firmware and DMA coherence
>> patches with the onboard SATA? ... I am testing with
>> linux-next-20260529, and the following patches from the mailing
>> list. OpenSBI, zsbl, EDK2, and fip.bin are all up-to-date.
> Just to confirm, downgrading the firmware (zsbl, edk2, fip.bin) to
> snapshots from December 2025 and reverting the dma-coherent dts
> changes (e728a57834d) does fix the issue. It looks like something may
> be seriously wrong, be careful if you have anything important on a
> SATA drive.

Changes related to DMA can be referred to at 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Hi Michael,

please confirm whether you have updated the firmware mentioned in the 
patch email. If there are still issues after updating the firmware, this 
patch may need to be reassessed.

Adding Han & Inochi.

Hi Han Gao,

Can you please take a look at the issue reported by Michael and can you 
provide more information on this? For a more complete report, please 
refer to https://lore.kernel.org/sophgo/ahu57vcS0oOFmCI9@mertle/

Thanks,

Chen