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On 22 Aug 2003 10:30:18 -0400
Tom Hosiawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Tom Hosiawa wrote:
> > > I've looked around for a solution but can't find much as to this
> > > particular case. I can enable dma with the linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
> > > kernel but not with linux-2.4.21 (uses same config file), any
> > > ideas?
> > > 
> > 
> > You should look previous subjets on the lists were DMA enabling is
> > largely discussed.
> > To be short : your problem is a kernel_config problem. You must
> > enable DMA in your kernel, as well as the support of your IDE
> > chipset.
> 
> I've read all those, it really shouldn't be a config problem though
> since it works with gentoo-sources but not vanilla. I am doing make
> oldconfig, so other than a few new options it should work but it
> doesn't. 
> 
> Could it be just that vanilla sources don't have some patch that
> gentoo does, although the vanilla kernel is newer, so I'm not sure if
> that would really make sense?
>  
That could very well make sense. The Gentoo Sources patchset is immense
(Take a look sometime, just the diffs between gentoo sources and the
same version of vanilla)


//Spider

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