On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:13:38PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> The main reason why the new driver "breaks" where the old one
> doesn't is that the new driver does not perform an extra register
> read to work-around chipsets that screw up memory mapped I/O.
Thanks for this clear description, Justin. I now understand why I've had
problems in the past with earlier versions here, since I have other devices
(eg dl2k) which can't do MMIO on my system.
Cheers,
Willy
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