[PATCH] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Sat Feb 17 01:55:08 EST 2007


Hello.

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

>>    I'm sorry, how those 2 drivers can be equivalent?! The pata_winbond driver 
>>is for VLB only, sl81c105 was for PCI only -- you certainly want to use 
>>pata_sl82c105 (indeed better version of sl82c105 driver).

> I was under the impression that with your fixes these drivers
> (sl82c105 and pata_sl82c105) are functionally equivalent.

    They're not yet equivalent. pata_sl82c105 supports all MWDMA modes, 
sl82c105 still supports only MWDMA2.

WBR, Sergei



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