From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Jens Benecke <jens@spamfreemail.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:56:03 +0100
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On Tuesday 13 of January 2004 16:40, Jens Benecke wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >> I have found a (perhaps THE) reason why my X is so jerky: the nforce2
> >> chipset driver (amd74xx) doesn't load, because it "thinks" the BIOS IDE
> >> ports are disabled - which is definitely not the case
> >
> > It doesn't load because IDE ports are already controlled by generic IDE
> > code.
> > Just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y.  I will fix this "BIOS" comment.
>
> I can't, because I (plan to) use this kernel on many different machines.
> Not all of those (in fact: only one) uses the amd74xx module.

So what?  It won't be used on other machines, but it will eat a little kernel
image space & memory.

> Is there a kernel parameter I can use to disable the generic IDE code on
> boot?

No, but I will later make patch to allow disabling/modularizing it.

--bart

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