Re: Persistent sound hangs (2.0.0 - 2.2.0pre4 tested)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:33:43 +0000 (GMT)

> Hmmm... what would be the proper part of the kernel to detect buggy ISA
> chipsets? isa-quirks.c or something? Certainly not pci.c ...

I dont know a safe way to detect such chipsets unfortunately. PCI chipsets
you can check when you scan the pci bus, isa/vlb dont have that.

> Just bugged VIA tech support again... anyone care to bet on the odds of me
> ever receiving a reply?

About 99%

> But if there is a DMA hang bug... *any* ISA device using DMA might hang,
> right? Even SCSI cards and such?

It only seems to trip up on certain patterns of DMA and devices - nobody has
reported floppy problems for example but lots of people have sound problems

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