Re: ISSUE: kernel hangs during PCI device probing

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:46:55 +0000 (GMT)


> Looking into the PCI features of the SIS chip set, I think that such
> thing should'nt claimed to be for PCI.
> A PCI master that does not use PCI bursts, is just wasting about 75% of
> the PCI bandwitch since the PCI bus is address/data multiplexed.

Oh thats one of the better ones. The bttv driver has some SiS checks for
a reason. Nevertheless it does stop the probe hanging. Maybe we arent
checking something that the NT probe does

Alan

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