On 11/12/05, Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:
> We must _never_ _ever_ on pain of death enable IDE DMA on SL82C105
> chipsets where the southbridge revision is <= 5, otherwise data
> corruption will occur.
>
> Strangely this used to work, but something has changed in the upper
> echelons of the IDE layer to break the hosts decision to deny DMA.
> Let's make it crystal clear to the IDE layer that we know best.
Has it changed recently?
AFAICS this bug was introduced long time ago in the sl82c105
driver itself by setting hwif->autodma in init_hwif_sl82c105()
without checking for bridge revision:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/[email protected]?nav=index.html|src/|src/drivers|src/drivers/ide|src/drivers/ide/pci|related/drivers/ide/pci/sl82c105.c|[email protected]
> Note: due to the urgency of this fix, I will be applying this to the
> ARM tree. Any comments/criticisms can be dealt with further patches.
Fine with me.
Bartlomiej
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