Re: Problem with via82cxxx and vt8235

[Patrick Petermair]

Alan Cox:
> On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 00:29, Patrick Petermair wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a MSI KT3Ultra2 Motherboard with a VT8235 southbridge. I'm
> > currently running kernel 2.4.19 - unfortunately it doesn't detect the
> > southbridge, so I cannot enable dma.
> > I tried the patch from Vojtech Pavlik (via82cxxx), but then it hangs
> > at boot:
>
> Try the -ac tree firstly

Thanks Alan, now dma works perfect!
How come this code isn't in the official 2.4.20 kernel?

The only strange thing now is that uname doesn't know my cpu:

starbase:/# uname -a
Linux starbase 2.4.20-ac1 #1 Sam Nov 30 18:43:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown 
unknown GNU/Linux
starbase:/#

But it gets recognized during boot:

starbase:/# dmesg | grep -i AMD
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ stepping 00
starbase:/#

starbase:/# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i AMD
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
starbase:/#

But hey, I can live with that - I have dma now :-)
Just curious, what's causing this.

Thanks so much...
Patrick