Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:45:28 +0100


On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:47:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > However - Alan's IDE patch for 2.2 kills autodma on ALL VIA chipsets.
> > That's because all VIA chipsets starting from vt82c586 to vt82c686b
> > (UDMA100), share the same PCI ID.
>
> I have no reports of problems with the later stuff

At least the one you sent to me is about 586b. Which is the later stuff.

> > Would you prefer to filter just vt82c586 and vt82c586a as the comment in
> > Alan's code says or simply unconditionally kill autodma on all of VIA
> > chipsets, as Alan's code does?
>
> I'd take a 2.2 patch to cut down the range too

I can make one for you, but first I'd like to find out what exactly are
the problem cases.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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