Re: INTEL 845G Chipset IDE Quandry

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:13:45AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 22:30, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 09:36:35PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > > Anthony Spinillo wrote:
> > > > Back to my original problem, will there be a fix before 2010? ;)
> > > 
> > > Well since you have already tyred yourself to poke at it.
> > > Well please just go ahead and atd an entry to the table
> > > at the end of piix.c which encompasses the device.
> > > Do it by copying over the next familiar one and I would
> > > be really geald if you could just test whatever this
> > > worked. If yes well please send me just the patch and
> > > I will include it.
> > 
> > Note it works with 2.5 already. We have the device there.
> 
> If you look at why it fails it fails not because it isnt in the table
> but because the PCI device has not been allocated resources properly by
> the BIOS

That's right. Well, maybe kernel 2.5 PCI code can fix that better? Maybe
not, and in that case a BIOS upgrade is probably the way to go.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs