It seems John Hay wrote:
> >
> > Yup VIA has a new version of the 82C596 chip, in their usual visdom they
> > change the interface, but not the chip ID (I'll nominate VIA for the
> > way they do versioning). However I have worked out the solution with
> > Chris Wiener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, that had this problem also and
> > kindly helped testing. Se the patch belowm try it and let me know..
>
> Is it possible that something like that is happening with the 82C586
> too? The chip on our boards are all marked VT82C586B. I'll try the
> patch although it seems to be for the 596?
Well I wouldn't be surpriced at that :)
> Should I just install 3.X and then copy a newer kernel over? 3.4
> install perfectly and dma also works without a problem if enabled
> with flags 0xa0ff. (Although that is probably a slower dma?)
I need a verbose boot log from the machine so I can see if VIA
changed the chip ID or at least the revision on it...
-Søren
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