[Forum] Articia: Still DMA-problems? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-May-2003 11:16 GMT by Senex | 122 comments View flat View list |
From a news-item at VGR.com it appears that the current Articia-northbridges might still have DMA-related problems:
"Mr. S.W. who sends over screen shots of newer AmigaOne 800mhz G4 hardware, has sent over 2 screen shots of the new A1 with G4 running 'amigaone xe/g4 7451 800mhz, excalibur radeon 9000 pro 64mb ddr ram, valueram kvr133x72rc3/256 kingston'. He wants to know '.. if other aone users have that problem as well..', 'it never outputs the same checksum with dma enabled when testing an iso file which is larger than the swap space used'
You can see the Radeon 9000 Pro screen shots here: DMA On & DMA Off."
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Posted by Olegil on 20-May-2003 14:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 26 (David Scheibler): Actually, the bug we know about is solvable (because it's been solved in x86 drivers by VIA), but not yet fully solved. The thing is, a lot of people NEVER stop to think that it might be a driver issue, and all they base it on is that "well, people who would say that are saying it, so it must obviously be a lie".
_That_ is what bites me.
There's a new kernel coming up, based on 2.4.21. Those who are interested can already get it from the cvs server (sourceforge). It's been largely done by MAI, and some after-effects added by Ross Vumbaca. So we're not just saying we're working on it, there's actually some work going on. But with 7 out of 10 people on the _developer_ developer list working on OS4 at the moment, it is taking a bit more time than it ought to. I admit to not being all that good at linux kernels, ok? :-)
I have a good understanding of the build system, but some of the coding seems like pure gibberish to me. Maybe it's because it IS gibberish, but I tend to blame myself :-) |
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