Re: [PATCH] Merge the changes from siimage 2.4.22-pre9 to 2.6.0-test2

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 12:24:32 EST

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Marcelo Penna Guerra wrote:

> > Are you aware of side effect?
> > [ Disabling DMA on ATAPI devices on SiI680. ]
> >
> > Please consult this change with Alan :-).
>
> No, I'm not. Sorry. I'm look for more information. But dma is working with
> my SiI3112A, everything is stable, so maybe it should be enabled by default
> for this chipset.

Real bug is in siimage_config_drive_for_dma():

                if (!(hwif->atapi_dma))
                        goto fast_ata_pio;

Remove these two lines and DMA should be auto-enabled.

BTW unfortunately "it works for me" approach doesn't work in IDE ;-). 

--
Bartlomiej

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