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From: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Assorted bugs in the PIIX drivers
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:36:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051125153601.GA6814@stiffy.osknowledge.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132929808.3298.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>

* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [2005-11-25 14:43:28 +0000]:

> I finally got all the documents rounded up to try and redo Jgarzik's
> PIIX driver a bit more completely (I'm short MPIIX if anyone has it ?)
> 
> I then started reading the docs and the code and noticing a couple of
> problems
> 
> 1.	We set IE1 on PIO0-2 which the docs say is for PIO3+
> 
> 2.	The ata_piix one (but not the ide/pci one) have shifts wrong so that
> the secondary slave timings are half loaded into the primary slave
> 
> 
> I'm also not clear if the "no MWDMA0" list has been updated correctly
> for the newer chipsets.
> 
> I've yet to review the DMA programming, just the PIO so far.

Alan,

	could it be possible to again drop the ide=nodma kernel parameter in my
configs that use reiserfs? reiserfs just bails out when I mount devices on ide
busses that miss that parameter. I somtimes had to --rebuild-tree after a boot
with DMA enabled.

Regards,
	Marc

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-25 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-25 14:43 Assorted bugs in the PIIX drivers Alan Cox
2005-11-25 14:53 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-25 15:36 ` Marc Koschewski [this message]
2005-11-25 17:12   ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 15:12 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-05-15 15:59   ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 18:26     ` Sergei Shtylyov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-25 15:44 SMALL, Timothy

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