From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: PATA failure with piix, works with libata Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 00:32:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20060306003221.GA8805@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20060303183937.GA30840@srcf.ucam.org> <20060305225733.GA8578@srcf.ucam.org> <440B770A.8090707@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:34730 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959AbWCFAce (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:32:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <440B770A.8090707@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:40:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >Ok, it /seems/ that things are happier (though still not entirely happy) > >if I explicitly acknowledge the interrupt by writing the dma status > >register back again. This doesn't seem to be done anywhere in the IDE > >interrupt routine, but is in the libata one. I'm afraid I don't > >understand IDE well enough to have any idea what's going on here - is it > >possible that a piix in native mode (rather than legacy mode) and > >sharing an interrupt needs some special handling? > > ICH definitely needs that irq ack... Yeah, this is an ICH7. I can't find anything in drivers/ide that would result in it being done, which is why I'm kind of confused. ide_ack_intr seems to be defined to do nothing on x86 since IDE_ARCH_ACK_INTR isn't defined there? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org