Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:56:03 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 13 of January 2004 16:40, Jens Benecke wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> I have found a (perhaps THE) reason why my X is so jerky: the nforce2 > >> chipset driver (amd74xx) doesn't load, because it "thinks" the BIOS IDE > >> ports are disabled - which is definitely not the case > > > > It doesn't load because IDE ports are already controlled by generic IDE > > code. > > Just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y. I will fix this "BIOS" comment. > > I can't, because I (plan to) use this kernel on many different machines. > Not all of those (in fact: only one) uses the amd74xx module.
So what? It won't be used on other machines, but it will eat a little kernel image space & memory.
> Is there a kernel parameter I can use to disable the generic IDE code on > boot?
No, but I will later make patch to allow disabling/modularizing it.
--bart
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