From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:17:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:17:26 -0400 Received: from sun.plan9.de ([213.69.218.222]:34742 "EHLO mailout.plan9.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:17:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:16:37 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Axel Thimm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Au-Ja , Yiping Chen , support@msi.com.tw, info@msi-computer.de, support@via-cyrix.de, John R Lenton Subject: Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch Message-ID: <20010601221637.B13797@cerebro.laendle> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Garzik , Axel Thimm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Au-Ja , Yiping Chen , support@msi.com.tw, info@msi-computer.de, support@via-cyrix.de, John R Lenton In-Reply-To: <20010519110721.A1415@pua.nirvana> <20010601171848.F467@cerebro.laendle> <3B17B4B0.9A805766@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B17B4B0.9A805766@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:28:48AM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.4.5 (root@cerebro) (gcc version 2.95.2.1 19991024 (release)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:28:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Once you get into the area of flushing data (or not flushing, which is > what delayed txn would imply), it is entirely possible that the driver > simply does not support what occurs when the PCI Delay Txn option is > set. Aren't PCI delayed transaction supposed to be handled by the pci master (e.g. my northbridge), not by the (software) driver for my pdc(?) I would also be surprised if my pdc actually used that feature, not to speak of the fact that the promise + harddisk worked fine in another computer (the data corruption was easily detectable, one couldn't even write 500megs without altered bytes). -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@goof.com |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |