Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

Richard B. Johnson
2000-10-26T17:43:57Z

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:04:21PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things
> > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This
> > does the following:
[Snipped...]
>
> Well, at least on 2.4.0-test9, the above timing code is #ifed to
> DISK_RECOVERY_TIME > 0, which in turn is #defined to 0 in
> include/linux/ide.h.
>
> So this is not our problem here. Anyway I guess it's time to hunt for
> i8259 accesses in the kernel that lack the necessary spinlock, even when
> they're not probably the cause of the problem we see here.

Okay, good.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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