Re: BUG: 2.4.18 & ALI15X3 DMA hang on boot

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 05:55:27 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>>There seems to be some fundamental incompatibility between the kernel
>>and the IDE chipset. On several kernels in the 2.4 series including
>>2.4.18, I observe a hang in the bootsequence at:
>>
>>ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
>>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
>>ALI15X3: chipset revision 195
>>ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>><hang>
>
>
> And does pci=bios help ?

There is a but in this driver, where it is refferencing hwif->index instead
of hwif->channel. It may cause a hossed setup.

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