Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:23:49 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Unknown Southbridge (was: Disk-I/O and % system (2.4.18-pre9)) |
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:20:05AM +0100, Florian Hars wrote:
> I wrote: > > Whenever I do some heavy disk-I/O (like untaring an archive with 13000 > > files that amount to 5GB), the CPU-state repeatedly goes to 99.9% > > system > > Part of the problem could be alleviated by unmasking the interrupts, > but now some part of the IDE system is crying for its master: > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, contact Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> > > I use a Gigabyte GA-7VTXE with a VIA KT266A chipset and a Southbridge > called VT8233A, which does not look like one of the "FUTURE_BRIDGES" > that are ifdefed out in the driver (or is it the same as the > { "vt8233c", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8233C, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_100 } ?). > > Yours, Florian Hars.
2.5.2 (and later, and maybe some earlier versions as well) have support for this chipset. You can copy over the via82cxxx.c and ide-timing.h to your kernel and it should work.
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