Re: BUG: 2.4.18 & ALI15X3 DMA hang on boot

[Art Haas]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:22:26PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> John Langford wrote:
> >>But before could you just tell the m5229_revision value
> >>on your system?
> >
> >I'm not sure what you mean.  Certainly, lspci says:
> >
> >
> >>00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c3)
> 
> That's it. Thank you.
> 

Hi.

I've been 'cc'd on the mail going to John Langford and everyone else
having trouble with the alim15x3 driver. As another data point, here's
what my machine has ...

$ lspci -vv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1531 [Aladdin IV] (rev b3)
	Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1531 [Aladdin IV]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev b4)
	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-
	Latency: 0

00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX
	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-
	Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
	Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Expansion ROM at ebff0000 [disabled] [size=64K]

00:0b.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev 20) (prog-if fa)
	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-
	Latency: 32 (500ns min, 1000ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 14
	Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
$

I'm currently running 2.4.19-pre3-ac6, and when I boot I've added "pci=biosirq"
to the command line.

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