Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:56:23 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Promise 202XX: neither IDE port enabled |
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It is messy because there is no way to commit parameters passed to change the contents of static initdata, iirc. However I need to think about this more.
Cheers,
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Markus Kossmann wrote:
> On Saturday 05 April 2003 13:02, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > It is designed to allow you to overide a FastTrack BIOS that disables a > > few items in pci-config space. Regardless if you have a FastTrack or > > Ultra, if enabled the device can be registered. If you have a FastTrack > > and want to use ata-raid by Arjan V. and not the OEM scsi binary driver, > > you must enable the override. If you want to use the OEM scsi binary > > driver with FastTrack, do not set the override. Ultra's do not care. > > If they do it is a BUG! > > > Wouldn't it be better to have the CONFIG_PDC20XXX_FORCE option as kernel > parameter , which is settable at boot time ? > According to Murphys Law you either get a precompiled kernel with that option > disabled but you want/have to use Arjans drivers. Or the Option is enabled > but you prefer to use the driver from Promise. > -- > Markus Kossmann markus.kossmann@inka.de >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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