On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:03:38AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:24:51AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:51:52AM +0000, Horms wrote: > > > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Oh look, why are you still fighting about this? It seems to me that the > > > > real problem is that the via module doesn't declare a relation to > > > > ide-generic in situations where it actually does need it. Why not fix > > > > the kernel, so that yaird doesn't have to bend over backwards? Not that > > > > I really care either way, but it does seem to me to be cleaner to fix > > > > the underlying problem rather than adding increasingly nonsensical > > > > special case code somewhere else to work around it. > > > > > > Can someone cook up a patch for this and send it upstream and/or here? > > > > I guess this means someone needs to investigate it with the hardware that is > > broken in the first place. Nobody seemed interested in doing so, and i don't > > have broken via-ide x86 hardware myself. > > > > Now, can we please get the borken hack in yaird be backed out or at least > > disabled on powerpc as my patch proposed ? > > As I subsequently mentioned on IRC, I have some Via hardware, though I'm > not sure if its broken or not. If someone wants me to run tests, please > let me know.
What we need to know is why the x86 via driver apparently needs the ide-generic module to be loaded after the via-ide one, while there doesn't seem to be a difference on powerpc who doesn't even build ide-generic. Could you try booting your via board with just viac8xx or whatever it is named, and not including the ide-generic file (means patching /usr/lib/yaird/perl/Hardware.pm, where it is hardcoded). Also, i wondered about another issue, since the ide-generic inclusion is needed for having dma-enabled, and we probably scarcely need that inside the ramdisk, what if we just reverted the patch and let the loading of ide-generic upto the post-ramdisk tools ? Anyway, i don't know why Erik is silent/MIA on this one, and Jonas clearly has decided to ignore anything i could say, so it would be great if someone else and neutral had a look at this issue and actually had a few words with him or something. I still don't think it is sane to not apply the patch reversal on powerpc to unbreak yaird on powerpc/pegasos board (and on other powerpc using a via-ide pci card as root probably too), but hey, i have kind of given up on this one, as initramfs-tools works fine :/ Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
