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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:51:50 -0500
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Subject: pgcc and linux-2.2.9 DMA problem
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I picked up Linux-Mandrake 6.0 yesterday and installed it on a machine
with a VIA chipset and amdk6-3.  Mandrake is, of course, compiled with
pgcc and -mpentium, -march=pentium.  It also sets DMA hard drive access
on  by default.  As soon as it does, the system hangs, the kernel
performs a reset on the drive (and disables DMA) and everything is fine
after that.  I used a stock tree to compile 2.2.9 (without all the
"fancy" optimizations, meaning -m486, etc.) and had the same problem.
I'm now back to my trusty RH 6.0 and it works great (2.2.9 compiled with
egcs 2.91.66.  BTW, why does egcs have 2 different version numbers,
2.91.66 and 1.1.2?)  I liked what I saw with mandrake but lack of
DMA-ide is kind of a show stopper.

Thanks,
Steve Bergman