[PATCH] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Sat Feb 17 02:11:06 EST 2007
Hello, I 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.
> Not really. It just needs the proper DMA timings to be set by adding the
> missing speedproc() method (and also DMA timings possibly merged with PIO like
> libata does generally -- except in this driver).
By "this driver" I meant pata_sl82c105 of course. :-)
>>Thanks,
>>Bart
MBR, Sergei
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