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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Which disk drivers do I need
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:54:05
Message-Id: dt9ic8$blv$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Which disk drivers do I need by Walter Dnes
1 Walter Dnes wrote:
2
3 > I'm trying to clean some cruft out of the kernel. "lspci" shows...
4 >
5 > 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev
6 > a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
7 > 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
8 > 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
9 > 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
10 > 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
11 > Audio Controller (rev a2)
12 > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
13 > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev
14 > a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
15 > (rev a2) 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
16 > 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a2)
17 > 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
18 > 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
19 > 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
20 > 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
21 > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
22 > HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced
23 > Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge:
24 > Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
25 > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
26 > Miscellaneous Control
27 > 01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link
28 > Layer Controller (rev 01)
29 > 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60
30 > [Radeon X300
31 > (PCIE)]
32 > 05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
33 >
34 > In "make menuconfig", the following is enabled for hard drives...
35 >
36 > <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
37 > <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
38 > <*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
39 > [*] Use multi-mode by default
40 > <*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
41 > <*> generic/default IDE chipset support
42 > [*] CMD640 chipset bugfix/support
43 > [*] PCI IDE chipset support
44 > [*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support
45 > <*> Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support
46 > <*> RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support
47 > [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
48 > [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
49 > <*> Intel PIIXn chipsets support
50 >
51 > I've got a DVD and a sata drive that shows up as /dev/sda. Can I
52 > safely get rid of...
53 >
54 > [*] CMD640 chipset bugfix/suppor
55 > <*> RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support
56 >
57
58 I never bother with those two and I think that you also should not bother
59 with <*> Intel PIIXn chipsets support.
60
61 If your read the help page for each option it tells you what sort of bugs
62 the first two deal with. Should you get the symptoms then you'll know to
63 include them, but from what I can see above I wouldn't think that you
64 should concern yourself with them.
65 --
66 Regards,
67 Mick
68
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