Re: getting dma66 support in kernel
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:02:33AM -0400, Dave Bresson wrote:
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> so i used to be running the 2.2.17-ide kernel which came with potato, but
> have since took it upon myself to go with a homegrown kernel, one which i
> have configured and compiled myself. I downloaded the source to 2.2.16
> and patched it to the latest 2.2.17pre19. I configured, and compiled it
> using make-kpkg and installed it. However, to my dismay, when i compiled
> it i saw no real option for the dma66 support which i need (and yes, i did
> select to show the optional selections in make menuconfig) and so my newly
> compiled kernel does nothing for my dma66 controller on my motherboard.
> Does anyone know how this support got into the kernel which comes with
> potato? Is there an option i missed which comes with the regular source
> from kernel.org, or is there some patch i have to go get to add this
> capability? There must be something i'm missing. Anyway, thank you so
> much for your time.
There's and "idebus=xx" where xx is between 20 and 66 inclusive in
2.4.0-pre... If it's backported to 2.2.17preNN then it'll probably work
by having an 'append="idebus=66"' in LILO or similar in GRUB. Check
<linux>/Documentation/ide.txt for details (I don't have the current
source myself).
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