From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264574AbUAMSLw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:11:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264917AbUAMSLw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:11:52 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:62433 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264574AbUAMSLa (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:11:30 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jens Benecke Subject: Re: 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:11:27 +0100 Organization: University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany Message-ID: References: <2867040.OKCKYgd4AF@spamfreemail.de> <200401131534.53423.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <200401131756.03852.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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. Then I'd have to statically compile in *all* IDE modules. The point is that I'm providing specially configured kernels for a large group of users, most of which I don't even know (much less their hardware configurations). >> 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. That'd be great. :-) Thanks! PS: this worked in 2.4 (loading the IDE driver later as module, but booting from IDE as well), why doesn't it work in 2.6 any more? -- Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer - garantiert! http://www.rb-hosting.de - PHP ab 9? - SSH ab 19? - günstiger Traffic