Bug#419482: Kernel 2.6.18 - ALI15X3 driver too optmistic about UDMA
* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [2007-09-08 15:21]:
> Interesting report as we've had essentially no corruption reports
> equivalent to this on common architectures for a long time and the
> hardware is in a huge number of PC systems. Also UDMA transfers are
> CRC protected by hardware at each end.
>
> That makes me wonder if you have a platform or endian bug, or indeed
> your firmware isn't setting up all the chipset as required by the
> ALi chipset and BIOS documentation (which unfortunately is NDA)
Steve, can you talk to Simtec about this?
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Martin Michlmayr
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