From: David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.18, Intel i815 chipset and DMA
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:21:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010309092102.D13905@greenhydrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010309090641.C13905@greenhydrant.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103091210280.6522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103091210280.6522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>; from hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:12:07PM -0500
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:12:07PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > I've got a Gateway here with a Intel 815 chipset running 2.2.18. Inside
>
> why? 2.2 is obsolete, and will not receive new drivers.
Hmm, so the Intel 815 and DMA doesn't mix with 2.2.x? What about
Andre's IDE patches?
> > The problem is that the IDE driver doesn't recognize the IDE
> > conroller, so DMA isn't enabled leading to some poor drive
>
> the controller is fine in the current 2.4.
I was hoping to stay off the 2.4 series until it stabilises a bit more,
although I may have to upgrade to get any sort of decent performance
out of this machine. There's a reason no distributions aren't shipping
a 2.4.x kernel yet.
Thanks,
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-09 17:21 UTC|newest]
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2001-03-09 17:06 2.2.18, Intel i815 chipset and DMA David Rees
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103091210280.6522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-03-09 17:21 ` David Rees [this message]
2001-03-09 17:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-10 2:57 ` David Rees
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