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From: "Kathy Frazier" <kfrazier@mdc-dayton.com>
To: "Roland Dreier" <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: DMA not supported with Intel ICH4 I/O controller?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:01:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PMEMILJKPKGMMELCJCIGKEKNCDAA.kfrazier@mdc-dayton.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52brvegyrf.fsf@topspin.com>

Roland,

Thanks for your response!

>It sounds like your board is acting as a PCI bus master.  This is
>completely different from DMA for the IDE controller.  External PCI

That's correct, we are a PCI bus master device.

>The BIOS on the P4PE may be setting
>your device up differently from the 815E motherboard.  Your device
>might be confusing the BIOS on the P4PE so that the IRQ routing
>information (eg in ACPI tables) is screwed up.  And so on.

With respect to the IRQ routing:  If the routing was messed up, wouldn't
this mean that no IRQs would get through on that device?  We are getting
some . . .

>However, I have not heard of any generic problems with external PCI
>bus masters and the ICH4.

. . . thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Kathy

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-28 19:44 DMA not supported with Intel ICH4 I/O controller? Kathy Frazier
2003-07-28 18:45 ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-28 20:40   ` Kathy Frazier
2003-07-28 19:32     ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-28 21:02       ` Kathy Frazier
2003-07-28 20:03         ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-28 20:19         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 22:02           ` Kathy Frazier
2003-07-28 21:21             ` Terje Kvernes
2003-07-29 14:45               ` Kathy Frazier
2003-07-29 11:01             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 14:07               ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-28 20:52         ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-29 13:01           ` Kathy Frazier [this message]
     [not found] <1059443191.3861.48.camel@cube>
2003-07-29 13:14 ` Kathy Frazier

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