Sergey Vlasov wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:40:54 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > >> While 2.6.16.2 runs quite OK on my VIA SP8000 Epia system, 2.6.17 gives >> (with the same config where possible) a sata problem on bootup, it gives >> a via_sata timeout(cmd 0xef). (the letters were small to make the stuff >> not scroll off the TV) >> Immediately rebooting into 2.6.16.2 gives a nice clean bootup. > > For some reason I suspect that VIA IRQ quirk again... > > Can you try to revert these patches from 2.6.17: > > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7b862f663d81858531dfccc0537bc9d8a2a4121 > > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=75cf7456dd87335f574dcd53c4ae616a2ad71a11 I undid both patches manually and reinstated DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_ENABLE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_ANY_ID, quirk_via_irq);. This made 2.6.17 boot again. Thanks VERY much for the tip! My PCI stuff, if that is useful: [root@recorder pci]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 00:14.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02) [root@recorder pci]# lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 1106:0259 00:00.1 0600: 1106:1259 00:00.2 0600: 1106:2259 00:00.3 0600: 1106:3259 00:00.4 0600: 1106:4259 00:00.7 0600: 1106:7259 00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198 00:0d.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80) 00:0f.0 0101: 1106:3149 (rev 80) 00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) 00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86) 00:11.0 0601: 1106:3227 00:11.5 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 60) 00:12.0 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 78) 00:14.0 0480: 1131:7146 (rev 01) 01:00.0 0300: 1106:3118 (rev 02) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html