On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:18:59PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:51:31AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently encountered a machine (a Thinkpad 860) with a NCR 53C810 > > SCSI controller that would not work properly unless the config option > > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_IOMAPPED was set. Under these circumstances, > > installation was a royal pain in the ass, and therefore, I am inclined > > to trade performance for wider support and enable this in the PowerPC > > kernel image packages. > > > > Any comments? > > Except for some broken x86 machines mapped I/O is a much better idea.
Urrg. I should read what the option actually does. It turns off mmio not on as I thought.
