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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP:  wd driver will be retired!)
In-Reply-To: <19991208213429.28285@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 8, 1999 09:34:29 pm"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:03:58 +0100 (CET)
Cc: dick@tar.com (Richard Seaman Jr.),
	phk@FreeBSD.ORG (Poul-Henning Kamp), current@FreeBSD.ORG
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It seems Greg Lehey wrote:
> > OK, you asked for it, following is a patch to support the
> > sis 5591 chipset. Remember this is done blindfolded, I
> > have no HW to test on, but you guys do :)
> >
> > Let me know what happens...
> 
> OK.  Let's defer removing wd until we know that ata DMA works on these
> platforms.  We'll have a lot of unhappy customers otherwise, myself
> (wearing another hat) included.  If nobody else gets there first, I'll
> look at this next week.
 
It already being tested, and it works, but at the same tike I found
out that the code in the old driver for the sis is schizofrenic, it
has one way of setting things up, and another way of reporting how
it is set :(, that way it is difficult to compare results from
the two drivers..

-Søren


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