Re: PATCHES (unused code/vars...) for 2.3.18ac8

Ivan Kokshaysky (ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:42:21 +0400


On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:50:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > One friend of mine has encountered the floppy bug when the eide driver
> > claim to use ressources used by the fdc. so it's not an alpha bug as
> > someone fixed it.
>
Yes, but currently PCI fixup code is architecture dependent,
so you need separate fix for x86.

> I've got a fix for one of the controllers where the floppy port is erroneously
> claimed by the IDE pci driver. It may not be only one controller wiht that
> problem (basically the IDE uses a port in the middle of the floppy range so
> you have to be careful)
>

Theoretically, that patch should be fine for any EIDE controller
on Alpha.

Ivan.

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