Re: Multiple (ICH3) IDE-controllers in a system

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 01:49:05 EST


On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:16:43PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> Hi Vojtech,
>
> Do I correctly assume that these fixups for Intel chipsets are from you?

Yes.

> http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@3cfbacdfzHvfqp0Sa45QXt9pNn3LNg?nav=index.html|src/|src/arch|src/arch/i386|src/arch/i386/pci|related/arch/i386/pci/fixup.c
> http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@3cfcec0fOJreGFyCWkPeT7EWiydYFw?nav=index.html|src/|src/arch|src/arch/i386|src/arch/i386/pci|related/arch/i386/pci/fixup.c
>
> Care to explain why 'trash' fixup is needed in 2.6 but not in 2.4?

Because 2.4 was never used on the affected machines, where this fixup
was needed - those machines sere putting nonsense into the BARs. I don't
recall exactly what model they were, though I remember they were one of
the first machines with ICH MMIO support.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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