Messages in this thread | | | From | Jens Benecke <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:11:27 +0100 |
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 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.
Then I'd have to statically compile in *all* IDE modules. The point is that I'm providing specially configured kernels for a large group of users, most of which I don't even know (much less their hardware configurations).
>> 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.
That'd be great. :-) Thanks!
PS: this worked in 2.4 (loading the IDE driver later as module, but booting from IDE as well), why doesn't it work in 2.6 any more?
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