Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch | Date | Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:40:58 +0100 (CET) |
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From kufel!ankry Sun Jan 14 00:30:25 2001 Return-Path: <kufel!ankry> Received: from kufel.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by green.mif.pg.gda.pl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id AAA00889 for green.mif.pg.gda.pl!ankry; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:30:25 +0100 Received: (from ankry@localhost) by kufel.dom (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01107 for green!ankry; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:00:40 +0100 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!ankry> Message-Id: <200101132100.WAA01107@kufel.dom> Subject: Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch To: kufel!green.mif.pg.gda.pl!ankry Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:00:40 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20010113144236.B1155@suse.cz> from "Vojtech Pavlik" at Jan 13, 2001 02:42:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik)
> > 2.4 has code in the pci quirks to disable the register which makes > > the chip masquerade as a VP3, and forces it to identify itself as > > an MVP3 part. I'm curious whether this has an interaction here. > > This doesn't do anything but change the ID so that Linux drivers are not > confused anymore. This caused a lot of trouble in 2.2, especially with > the old VIA IDE driver. [...] > Fortunately all these chips use PIIX-compatible extensions to the PCI > bus, so they are all interchangeable to some degree. > > > I'm curious if all of the other boards in Alans bug reports also > > fall into the stranger category. > > It's possible. I have a board (VA-503A), which has a masqueraded 598, > which identifies itself as 597, and a 686a southbridge. This got the > 2.2 ide driver completely confused, for example.
Maybe the VIA IDE chipset support option should depend on PCI quirks now ?
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