Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and othergoodies

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:49 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:40:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:44 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > - couple of fixes and preparatory patches
> > > 
> > > - rework of PowerMac media-bay support ([un]register IDE devices instead of
> > >   [un]registering IDE interface) [ it is the main reason for spamming PPC ML ]
> > 
> > Interesting... I was thinking about doing a full remove of the device at
> > a higher level instead but I suppose what you propose is easier.
> 
> Well, I have serious problem on a Pegasos which appeared some time
> between 2.6.24 and 2.6.25-rc1: at boot I get an infinite string of 
> 
> hdb: empty DMA table?
> 
> I'm trying to bisect it right now.

Pegasos doesn't use the pmac ide which is what we were discussing. It
uses a VIA IDE which uses a normal PRD table. So something else must
have broken...

Ben.


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