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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Aleksey Gorelov <Aleksey_Gorelov@Phoenix.com>
Cc: Giancarlo Formicuccia <giancarlo.formicuccia@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix incorrect Asus k7m irq router detection
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:32:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727173222.GD20938@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0EF82802ABAA22479BC1CE8E2F60E8C33D2D00@scl-exch2k3.phoenix.com>

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:10:35AM -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote:
 
 > > >  static __init int via_router_probe(struct irq_router *r, 
 > >struct pci_dev *router, u16 device)
 > > >  {
 > > >  	/* FIXME: We should move some of the quirk fixup stuff here */
 > > > +
 > > > +	if (router->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C686 &&
 > > > +			device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C586_0) {
 > > > +		/* Asus k7m bios wrongly reports 82C686A as 
 > >586-compatible */
 > > > +		device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C686;
 > > > +	}
 > > > +
 > > >  	switch(device)
 > > >  	{
 > > >  		case PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C586_0:
 > >
 > >If this really is a problem with that board, it should have a DMI entry
 > >for that board alone, not for every VIA chipset that uses the 
 > >586/686 combo,
 > >as I'm fairly certain there are some that legitimately use 
 > >this combination,
 > >and the patch above will force them all to be reported as 82C686's.
 > 
 >   How can they use it legitimately if 586 & 686 routers are not
 > programming register compatible ? Any board which reports  that 686 is
 > compatible with 586 will have that issue.

Actually now that I've woken up properly, your patch looks ok to me.
For some reason I was thinking we were comparing a north and south
bridge here.

		Dave


       reply	other threads:[~2005-07-27 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0EF82802ABAA22479BC1CE8E2F60E8C33D2D00@scl-exch2k3.phoenix.com>
2005-07-27 17:32 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-07-27  8:16 [PATCH] Fix incorrect Asus k7m irq router detection Giancarlo Formicuccia
2005-07-27 16:48 ` Dave Jones

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