From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263373AbTJQKVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:21:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263381AbTJQKVa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:21:30 -0400 Received: from zcamail03.zca.compaq.com ([161.114.32.103]:16645 "EHLO zcamail03.zca.compaq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263373AbTJQKV3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:21:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:20:02 +0200 From: Torben Mathiasen To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Torben Mathiasen , Tomas Szepe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH] fix ServerWorks PIO auto-tuning Message-ID: <20031017102002.GC1690@tmathiasen> References: <200310162344.09021.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20031017095117.GB1690@tmathiasen> <200310171222.29796.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310171222.29796.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: Linux 2.4.22 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --