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On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 12:39:44AM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > I'm worried that alot of people will have hardware compatibility > probs with 2.2. Consider the VIA dma bug, how many more like that > are there, they we just havn't notices because no one with the > nessassary weird hardware combo to bright it out is running 2.1? Linux makes marginal hardware break... I've got hardware that works 100% under NT, but under Linux, bad things happen. Some of this breakage has acceptable work-arounds, and if these devices are know, when can black list them. I didn't follow the VIA thread, but I suspect we can black-list DMA for VIA chipsets. -cw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html | ||||||||||||
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