From: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>,
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH] fix ServerWorks PIO auto-tuning
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:20:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031017102002.GC1690@tmathiasen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310171222.29796.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Fri, Oct 17 2003, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Also, the previous problem we had where Linux would enable DMA on a device
> > (system) not supporting it has also been fixed now that we look at the
> > dma_stat bits to determine whether the BIOS indicated DMA. We're currently
>
> Can I assume that "biostimings" option is no longer needed for ServerWorks?
>
> If so I will remove it because it is dangerous on many chipsets.
> Even if some chipset needs it in the future it should be reimplemented
> in specific chipset driver, not in generic IDE code.
>
Yes, even though I haven't tested on many systems, I believe this is the right
fix. Regarding the biostimings stuff, then I already sent fixes to Alan a long
time ago but I think they got lost. Please remove it and we can come up with
something else if ever needed.
Torben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-16 21:44 [RFT][PATCH] fix ServerWorks PIO auto-tuning Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-17 7:37 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-10-17 9:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-17 9:51 ` Torben Mathiasen
2003-10-17 10:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-17 10:20 ` Torben Mathiasen [this message]
2003-10-17 10:23 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-10-18 13:02 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-10-18 15:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-20 9:24 ` Torben Mathiasen
2003-10-20 10:44 ` Tomas Szepe
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