Re: DMA in PCI chipset -- module vs. compiled-in

On Sul, 2006-02-05 at 23:32 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> Generic and chipset specific support are not complementary, they are
> mutually exclusive.  Having generic PCI IDE support enabled will prevent
> the chipset specific support from working properly.

Untrue.

The PCI generic driver by default grabs only hardware with PCI IDS it
knows can be driven generically. That list purposefully has no overlaps
with chipset drivers.

Alan

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