Re: libATA PATA status report, new patch

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 06:34:42 EST


On Maw, 2006-02-07 at 13:10 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> I also tried VMWare 5.5 that emulated PIIX4. It works if I only put
> ata_piix driver in. With the same kernel that Qemu gets the error,
> VMWare gets another oops during generic ide initialisation. I relooked
> and found that I have both generic PCI ide and generic ISA ide drivers
> compiled in, so I disabled them and it works using ata_piix (with PATA
> and ATAPI enabled). Even ATAPI cdrom worked as the root partition.

Ok there is a resource handling bug somewhere in the generic case that
needs fixing I have yet to find. Also some mishandling of devices with
bmdma not enabled which kills Qemu. I've just been fixing the latter and
also adding CFA awareness. I'll take a look at the resource code next.

Alan

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