On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:00 +0200, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to plug a sata card in the PCI slot of the MPC5200Lite.
...
> By default the IRQ line of the sata card is 0,
...
> From the source code, it looks like a value 0 for the IRQ means the IRQ
> is disabled.
>
> From "drivers/ide/ide-probe.c", in the 'hwif_init' function:
> ...
> if (!hwif->irq) {
> if (!(hwif->irq = ide_default_irq(hwif->io_ports[IDE_DATA_OFFSET])))
> {
> printk("%s: DISABLED, NO IRQ\n", hwif->name);
> return (hwif->present = 0);
> }
> }
> ...
>
> Commenting out the above code allow the PCI card to run properly.
This is a bug in the IDE driver. Zero is a perfectly valid IRQ number --
I have boxes where PCI slots get IRQ #0 too. Please fix the IDE driver
and send the patch to the IDE maintainer.
--
dwmw2
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