Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:34:36 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman Jr." <dick@tar.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!) Message-ID: <19991209093436.A782@tar.com> In-Reply-To: <199912091503.QAA81292@freebsd.dk> References: <19991208213429.28285@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <199912091503.QAA81292@freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:03:58PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > > > OK, you asked for it, following is a patch to support the > > > sis 5591 chipset. Remember this is done blindfolded, I > > > have no HW to test on, but you guys do :) > > > > > > Let me know what happens... > > > > OK. Let's defer removing wd until we know that ata DMA works on these > > platforms. We'll have a lot of unhappy customers otherwise, myself > > (wearing another hat) included. If nobody else gets there first, I'll > > look at this next week. > > It already being tested, and it works, but at the same tike I found > out that the code in the old driver for the sis is schizofrenic, it > has one way of setting things up, and another way of reporting how > it is set :(, that way it is difficult to compare results from > the two drivers.. I think the old wd code was broken on reporting. The reporting was changed from the original submission, when it was committed. See the attached message:
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