On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:49:25PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
The kernel I'm using is 2.6.14. My chipset is Via 82c694x and 82c686b
(Abit VP6 dual-P3 with HighPoint 370). DMA is on only when 'via82cxxx'
and 'hpt366' are compiled in. Most importantly, DMA cannot be turned on
if loading by module.
Does it mean that this "bug" is pecular to my chipset?
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