On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:40:00PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:19:19PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:36:52AM +0100, Mau wrote:
> > > ide-generic should probably not be permanent as it's not needed to boot > > > the root filesystem. Please fix! > > that's not handled by any other driver; if another driver is loaded after > > ide-generic, the IDE devices are already claimed. > Notice that i believe that ide-generic will drive any ide chipset for x86, i > have some doubt of it working on non-x86 arches, at least it does not work on > pegasos, and i don't think it will support the powermacs ide drives. > > The other problem is, as you say below, that loading it before the real thing > will make the real thing not work, as is the case here. > > > However, as long as ide-generic is loaded after the chipset drivers, > > all this ambiguity should not hurt too much. For common hardware, > > ide-generic is expected to be one of the last drivers loaded. > > Maybe the correct algorithm would be to : > > 1) only include ide-generic on x86 hardware. Doable ... > 2) load it after the real driver, and maybe only if the real driver didn't > produce a working driver for the root device. This is the problematic one: piix is recognised and works, via8cxxx is recognised and doesn't. How would yaird distinguish when to load ide-generic? > [ notes about how ide-generic is not especially easy to read ... ] Yep. > So, what about your via based case ? Why does via alone not work ? This is > probably a bug in the via driver, maybe because of the strange interrupt issue > or something ? I don't know. Options at this point: * Ideally, we could avoid the whole problem by just loading ide-generic late, but according to the report that does not always work. I'm curious about the --verbose output; would that show why this approach doesnt work here? * Or find out whether 'via needs ide-generic' is a bug or feature, possibly repair the driver; does not sound simple. * Or maintain a table of which drivers need ide-generic as extra. Not the kind of maintenance we're looking forward to. Regards, Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
