Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G

Willy Tarreau (willy@w.ods.org)
Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:04:01 +0100


On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:13:38PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> The main reason why the new driver "breaks" where the old one
> doesn't is that the new driver does not perform an extra register
> read to work-around chipsets that screw up memory mapped I/O.

Thanks for this clear description, Justin. I now understand why I've had
problems in the past with earlier versions here, since I have other devices
(eg dl2k) which can't do MMIO on my system.

Cheers,
Willy

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