[PATCH] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 17 08:41:19 EST 2007
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:55 +0300, 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.
BTW, the "old ide" sl82c105 currently upstream produces warnings on 64
bits platforms about conversion between int and pointers of different
sizes. I didn't have time to look closely yesterday though, could be
harmless.
Ben.
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