Re: [PATCH] sis5513 fix for SiS962 chipset

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 16:53, Lionel Bouton wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote the following on 09/10/2004 04:29 PM :
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >1. If the fake 5513 id bit is not set by the BIOS we must have the 5518
> >id in the device table.
> >
> >2. If the register remapping is not set by the BIOS then the enable bit
> >check in ide_pci_setup_ports will fail. It's safe to switch to the
> >remapping mode here. Keeping the not remapped mode would need quite big
> >changes AFAICS.
>
> I was worried about these when 5518 was introduced but couldn't test on 
> the hardware I had at hand and nobody reported hitting this so it went 
> under the carpet. What hardware did you use to test ?

Compact PCI ICP-P4 from Inova Computers.

They have not set the 5513 fake id bit and the remapping bit isn't set
either. I did thorough testing both on 2.4 and 2.6 and encountered no
problems yet. I suspect there are more boards around with similar
settings.

tglx


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