[PATCH] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
bzolnier at gmail.com
Sat Feb 17 02:09:07 EST 2007
On Friday 16 February 2007 15:55, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> 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.
Indeed and it seems that IDE core needs ->dma_mode to fix this.
Thanks,
Bart
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