Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:01:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:01:11 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:12560 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:01:04 -0500 Subject: Re: BUG: 2.4.18 & ALI15X3 DMA hang on boot To: jcl@cs.cmu.edu (John Langford) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:17:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200203212047.g2LKlrc28867@gs176.sp.cs.cmu.edu> from "John Langford" at Mar 21, 2002 03:47:53 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > There seems to be some fundamental incompatibility between the kernel > and the IDE chipset. On several kernels in the 2.4 series including > 2.4.18, I observe a hang in the bootsequence at: > > ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. > ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 > ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > And does pci=bios help ? The kernel can't find out how the IDE IRQ routing is happening. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/