Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:48:48 -0400 Received: from www.wotug.org ([194.106.52.201]:10546 "EHLO gatemaster.ivimey.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:48:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:50:39 +0100 (BST) From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook X-X-Sender: ruthc@sharra.ivimey.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RFC [PATCH] pdc202xx configure help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2575 Lines: 62 Folks, I've been working on the pdc202 driver having had some problems getting my new gigabyte MB running sweetly. The following patch fixes the configure help to be, well, more helpful. I hope this is useful. In the text, I have referred to the two configure options I have renamed in another patch that I'll be submitting tonight also. These can, of couse, be left as-is. Ruth diff -U6 -r -x .*.flags -x *.o -x .depend linux-2.4.19/Documentation/Configure.help 2.4.19-ri1/linux/Documentation/Configure.help --- linux-2.4.19/Documentation/Configure.help Sat Aug 3 01:39:42 2002 +++ 2.4.19-ri1/linux/Documentation/Configure.help Sat Aug 10 23:08:39 2002 @@ -1167,26 +1167,33 @@ Case 430HX/440FX PIIX3 need speed limits to reduce UDMA to DMA mode 2 if the BIOS can not perform this task at initialization. If unsure, say N. -PROMISE PDC20246/PDC20262/PDC20265/PDC20267/PDC20268 support +PROMISE PDC20246/PDC20262/PDC20265/PDC20267/PDC20268/PDC20275/PDC20276 support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX Promise Ultra33 or PDC20246 Promise Ultra66 or PDC20262 Promise Ultra100 or PDC20265/PDC20267/PDC20268 + Promise Ultra133 or PDC20275/PDC20276 This driver adds up to 4 more EIDE devices sharing a single interrupt. This add-on card is a bootable PCI UDMA controller. Since multiple cards can be installed and there are BIOS ROM problems that happen if the BIOS revisions of all installed cards (three-max) do not match, the driver attempts to do dynamic tuning of the chipset at boot-time for max-speed. Ultra33 BIOS 1.25 or newer is required - for more than one card. This card may require that you say Y to + for more than one card, and this card may require that you say Y to "Special UDMA Feature". + + If you have a RAID-capable controller, such as the PDC20276, it will + be used as a plain IDE controller unless you say Y to 'Do not use + software RAID device as plain IDE controller' and also say Y to the + Promise software IDE RAID controller. If you do this, the IDE driver + detects the controller during startup, but ignores it. If you say Y here, you need to say Y to "Use DMA by default when available" as well. Please read the comments at the top of . -- Ruth Ivimey-Cook Software engineer and technical writer. - 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/