Re: VIA chipset hangs???

Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:57:06 -0700 (PDT)


I see the closing in on a chipset quirk in the near future, Martin?
We trust that Dan did the homework for you and me.

Dan, could you send us the vender:device ids and verifiy that it is not a
revision thinky also?

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > 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.
>
> >From the 597 (vp3) documentation:
>
> Device 0 Offset 70 - PCI buffer control - RW
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Bit 7 - CPU to PCI Post-Write - 0 disable(default), 1 enable
>
> I checked the documentation, and Device 0 Offset 70 bit 7 seems to be
> exactly the same function for 595 (vp2/97), 598 (mvp3), and 691 (apollopro).
>
> -Dan
>

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