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From: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:04:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010121140433.A1068@gondor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010120215641.A1818@suse.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101201301200.657-100000@master.linux-ide.org> <20010121104606.A398@suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20010121104606.A398@suse.cz>; from vojtech@suse.cz on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:46:06AM +0100

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:46:06AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Ok, the VIA driver from clean 2.2.18 does nothing. It doesn't even use
> hardcoded timings. It doesn't touch any timing tables. It just blindly
> enables prefetch and writeback in the chips. The thing works because it
> relies on BIOS to set things up correctly, and this is often the case,
> yes.

If BIOS is often correct: Is it possible to read these values and compare
them to the values linux calculates? If both match: OK, continue. If they
are different: Either BIOS or linux is wrong, print a warning and disable
DMA (or go to some other kind of 'safe mode').

Just an idea, I don't know anything about chipsets and IDE timings ;-)

Jan

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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-20 17:14 [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support Alan Chandler
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.11101200938180.2302-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
2001-01-20 18:45   ` Alan Chandler
2001-01-20 20:56     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-20 22:57       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-20 23:55         ` Alan Chandler
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101202015510.1776-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-01-21 10:51             ` Alan Chandler
2001-01-21 11:44               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-21  9:46         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-21 13:04           ` Jan Niehusmann [this message]
     [not found]           ` <Pine.Linu.4.10.10101211237230.2017-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-01-21 16:32             ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-21 20:49               ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-22  0:12                 ` Dan Hopper
2001-01-22  6:06                 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-25 21:54                 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-25 21:56                   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-25 22:00                   ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-26  0:26                     ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-24 18:04           ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-24 19:25             ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-24 21:58               ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-25 12:20                 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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2001-01-19 15:56 Vojtech Pavlik

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