The adress parsing is intensional, as that some hardware does not require
all the address ioports.
As I explained to Pete, try 2.2.15pre10 plus the patches.
There were more changes in in 2.3.49 than I did. It appears that there is
not a problem with the code but other places, for now. I ak that anyone
with a 486 try to reproduce the error.
On 4 Mar 2000, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> Den 03-Mar-00 04:27:40 skrev Pete Clements fĝlgende om "2.3.4[89] fail to probe/id IDE properly (long)":
> > 2.3.48 and 2.3.49 fail to properly probe/id IDE. This box is an i486
> > with no pci bus and none configured. Below is the boot log for
> > 2.3.49 followed by the boot log for the working 2.3.47 kernel.
>
> Something is slightly weird. What does your /proc/ioports say? Mine with
> 2.3.49:
>
> # cat /proc/ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 01f0-01f0 : ide0
> 01f1-01f1 : ide0
> 01f2-01f2 : ide0
> 01f3-01f3 : ide0
> 01f4-01f4 : ide0
> 01f5-01f5 : ide0
> 01f6-01f6 : ide0
> 01f7-01f7 : ide0
> 0300-031f : WD8013
> 03b0-03bb : mda
> 03bf-03bf : mda
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 4c80-4cdb : aha1740
> 6000-6fff : NE3200
>
> Notice the many ide0 entries for eight consecutive port addresses. With
> 2.3.46 it looks like this:
>
> # cat /proc/ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 0300-031f : WD8013
> 03b0-03bb : mda
> 03bf-03bf : mda
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 4c80-4cdb : aha1740
>
> Notice that ide0 only takes two entries here.
>
> Regards,
>
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