Re: ALI M15x3 support

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 16:26:19 EST


Known and fixed bug, get the most recent -ac patch.

pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4.0test/

-d

Matman@arcormail.de wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am not really sure that this is a bug. If there is more supported as "Use
> PCI DMA by default", "Generic PCI bus-master DMA support", "Generic PCI IDE
> chipset support", "include IDE/ATA-2 Disk support" and "Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL
> support" to run ALI M15x3 support, please let me know it.
>
> My problem is: When i disable the ALI M15x3 support i can boot the kernel
> whithout problems. But when i enable the ALI M15x3 support, to have a
> specified driver for my ASUS P5A motherboard with ALI M1543C IDE-Controller,
> the kernel makes this message:
>
> unknown partition table
>
> and later:
>
> unable to mount root fs
>
> It could be important for you to know that my P5A motherboard have an
> UDMA/33 bus and my IDE harddisk is a little bit newer (UDMA/66). With
> enabled ALI M15x3 support the kernel detect my harddisk as an UDMA/66 drive.
> And the newest P5A motherboards also have an UDMA/66 bus. Is it possible
> that my UDMA/33 bus, my UDMA/66 disk and the ALI M15x3 support is the result
> of the problem reported above?
>
> Now some informations about my system. If you need more, let me know it. I
> will then send it to you. Have a nice day!
>
> Distribution is Mandrake 7.0, Kernelversion is 2.4.0-test1
>
> /proc/cpuinfo:
>
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 5
> model : 8
> model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> stepping : 0
> cpu MHz : 300.692844
> cache size : 64 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mmx 3dnow
> bogomips : 599.65
>
> /proc/ioports:
>
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 0170-0177 : ide1
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
> 0376-0376 : ide1
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
> 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
> 5c20-5c3f : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU
> b800-b80f : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE
> d000-dfff : PCI Bus #01
> d800-d8ff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X
>
> /proc/iomem:
>
> 00000000-0009ffff : System RAM
> 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
> 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
> 00100000-03ffbfff : System RAM
> 00100000-00224fd7 : Kernel code
> 00224fd8-0023a1d3 : Kernel data
> 03ffc000-03ffefff : ACPI Tables
> 03fff000-03ffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
> de800000-dfffffff : PCI Bus #01
> de800000-de800fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X
> df000000-dfffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X
> e0000000-e3ffffff : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541
> e6800000-e6800fff : Brooktree Corporation Bt878
> e7000000-e7000fff : Brooktree Corporation Bt878
> e7f00000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved
>
> /proc/pci:
>
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 4).
> Master Capable. Latency=64.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff].
> Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
> PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5243 (rev 4).
> Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.
> Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
> Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU (rev 0).
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
> [Aladdin IV] (rev 195).
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 2).
> IRQ 12.
> Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=40.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe7000fff].
> Bus 0, device 10, function 1:
> Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 2).
> IRQ 12.
> Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6800000 [0xe6800fff].
> Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
> IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev 193).
> Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
> I/O at 0xb800 [0xb80f].
> Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X
> (rev 92).
> Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf000000 [0xdfffffff].
> I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde800000 [0xde800fff].
>
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