Re: VIA chipset hangs???

Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:34:12 -0700 (PDT)


Greetings Martin,

If we are discussing "CPU to PCI write buffer".

00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0597 (rev 04)

70: c1 88 ec 41 00 80 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 40 hangs
70: 41 88 ec 41 00 80 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 40
^--- here is the offending bit based upon imperical data.

I will have to hunt through the "pdf's" again to verify that it has
identical effects for all VIA chipset host-base.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Martin Mares wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > Well, setpci from pciutils-2.0 does not have such options to
> > switch it on, does it ?
>
> You can look to chipset specs and find which bit in which configuration
> register controls this feature and then use setpci to toggle it.
>
> Have a nice fortnight
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