From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264384AbUAMQwg (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:52:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264477AbUAMQwg (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:52:36 -0500 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:62677 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264384AbUAMQwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:52:35 -0500 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Jens Benecke Subject: Re: 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:56:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <2867040.OKCKYgd4AF@spamfreemail.de> <200401131534.53423.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401131756.03852.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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