Bug 72542

Summary: need Vojtech Pavlik's VIA updates for vt8233a southbridge support
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: James Ralston <ralston>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: nullCC: romildo, wtogami
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/dev/
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Vojtech Pavlik's VIA updates, for 2.4.18-11 kernel none

Description James Ralston 2002-08-25 02:05:57 UTC
Support for the VIA vt8233a southbridge didn't appear in the Linux kernel until
2.4.19-pre5, when Vojtech Pavlik updated drivers/ide/ide-timing.h and
drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c.

Although the Red Hat (null) beta kernel is based on 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, and should
thus contain support for the VIA vt8233a southbridge, the (null) kernel doesn't
support the vt8233a, because the linux-2.4.18-idebackport patch (patch 2390)
reverts Vojtech Pavlik's updates.
	
Since Red Hat Linux 7.3 (kernel-2.4.18-4), I've been building my own kernel
(based on Red Hat's) which includes Vojtech Pavlik's VIA southbridge updates. 
While I certainly can't test my kernel as thoroughly as Red Hat does, I've had
zero problems with my kernels.

Since I noticed other people were having the same problems with VIA vt8233a
southbridges, I documented what I'd discovered and done on my web page:

    http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/dev/

I'd like to see Vojtech Pavlik's VIA updates included in the official Red Hat
kernel.  Please consider adding them.

Comment 1 James Ralston 2002-08-25 02:08:32 UTC
Created attachment 72811 [details]
Vojtech Pavlik's VIA updates, for 2.4.18-11 kernel

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-08-25 08:51:14 UTC
please run up2date before filing such bugs ;)

Comment 3 Matthew Hannigan 2002-08-25 14:39:23 UTC
What does it mean for it to be 'not supported'
I have installed 7.2, skipjack, 7,3,limbo and null on
my machine (gigabyte 7vrxp) without any problems.

No dma, but no problems either.  Is the lack of dma
the only problem?


Comment 4 Warren Togami 2002-09-08 20:53:05 UTC
Is this resolved in Rawhide?