Re: Semi up to date JOBS list

From: Jeremy Katz (katzj@enki.eos.ncsu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 18:46:26 EST


On Tuesday, June 13 2000, Alan Cox said:

> Boot Time Failures
> ------------------
> AHA29xx driver appears to stomp other cards (may be BIOS)
> AHA27xx is broken (maybe 28xx too)
> Use PCI DMA 'lost interrupt' problem with some hw [which ?]
> (NEC Versa LX with PIIX tuning)
> HT6560/UMC8672 ide sets up stuff too early (before region stuff can be done)
> Crashes on boot on some Compaqs ? (may be fixed)
> ACPI hangs on boot for some systems
> Boot hangs on a range of Dell docking stations (Latitude)

Add "AIC7xxx driver doesn't work with Western Digital drives".
This was fixed in Doug's 2.2.x drivers (the 5.1.29 one was the one with
the fix iirc) but it hasn't been forward ported to 2.3 yet.

Jeremy

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