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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > I am in their lab trying to reproduce the error and I have found some docs
> > which could help address the error of the 4byte FIFO issue in the engine.
> > It looks fixable on paper.
> 
> Andre - if you want the info I have from the previous stuff I was involved
> in I can strip out customer company info and send it on.
> 
> > As for the AMD driver, who knows which version is in that kernel.
> 
> 2.4.18 has a very old one
> 2.4.18-ac has the Andre/AMD updated one, but not the further updates.
>                 (eg it turns off SWDMA on more chipsets than it needs to)
> 

 it is actually possible that the AMD driver is not enabled on the
kernel from our integrator. Could this give problems when someone
enables DMA on the IDE devices?


 I am still wondering why we did not see it on the eight other boxes
with the same setup. Maybe just luck?

Thanks
Martin
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