VIA MVP3 problem is still there...
Hello
Long, long ago, in 2.4.3-pre - appeared fixup for VIA chipsets, however, fixups for VIA MVP3 was unnecessary, and even slowed down system. It's already fixed in -ac, but this broken fixup is still in 2.4.8 kernel. It affects most of K6-2/K6-3 users. There are stable kernels in distributions, not -ac, so IMHO it will be good to fix that problem at last - and it's only two lines of code:
arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Sat Aug 11 16:20:04 2001 renamed from arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Sat Aug 11 16:19:30 2001 +0 -2
@@ -994,8 +994,6 @@ { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, pci_fixup_ide_bases }, { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5597, pci_fixup_latency }, { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5598, pci_fixup_latency }, - { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C691, pci_fixup_via691 }, - { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C598_1, pci_fixup_via691_2 }, { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82371AB_3, pci_fixup_piix4_acpi }, { 0 } };
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in -ac, but this broken fixup is still in 2.4.8 kernel. It affects most of K6-2/K6-3 users. There are stable kernels in distributions, not -ac, so IMHO it will be good to fix that problem at last - and it's only two lines of code:
Actually most distro kernels have the fix and are -ac based. However you are right Linus - I'd forgotten this was still in your tree:
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arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Sat Aug 11 16:20:04 2001 renamed from arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Sat Aug 11 16:19:30 2001 +0
-2@@ -994,8 +994,6 @@ { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, pci_fixup_ide_bases }, { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5597, pci_fixup_latency }, { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_SI_5598, pci_fixup_latency }, - { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C691, pci_fixup_via691 }, - { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C598_1, pci_fixup_via691_2 }, { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER, PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82371AB_3, pci_fixup_piix4_acpi }, { 0 } };