From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Jens Benecke <jens@spamfreemail.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:56:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401131756.03852.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bu13gl$rs2$1@sea.gmane.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-13 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-12 21:13 2.6.1mm2: very bad interactive behaviour under XFree86 Jens Benecke
2004-01-12 23:11 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-13 7:10 ` 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 14:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-13 15:40 ` Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 16:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2004-01-13 18:11 ` Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 18:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-13 21:15 ` Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 21:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-14 9:30 ` Jens Benecke
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