Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4

Ross Biro (rossb@google.com)
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:35:38 -0800


Ross Biro wrote:

>>>
>>> This is technically a spec violation, but it's probably safe. I'm
>>> going to send an email to a couple of the drive manufacturers and
>>> see what they think.
>>>
>>
I just heard back from one ide controller chip vendor and they think we
should disable PCI write posting. From the tone of the response, I
believe that they may not have thought of this before and it may be a
problem in their non-opensource drivers as well.

Ross

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