Re: [PATCH] ATI IXP IDE support (was: Re: Support for ATI IXP150 Southbridge)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Thursday 26 of February 2004 22:57, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2004 20:08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 of February 2004 19:08, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > > On Monday 23 February 2004 22:54, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > On Monday 23 of February 2004 22:23, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > > > > Is anybody working on support for the ATI IXP150 Southbridge?
> > > > > Particularly the IDE and USB devices.
> > > >
> > > > IDE support should be added soon (thanks to ATI).
> > > >
> > > > --bart
> > >
> > > Great - is there someone I can contact to volunteer to help with
> > > testing?
> >
> > You can find experimental (I have not tested it!) driver for 2.6.3 kernel
> > at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/atiixp_ide/atiixp_ide-
> >2. 6.3-1.patch
> >
> > It was written by Hui Yu <hyu@ati.com>, additional fixes/cleanups by me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --bart
>
> Ok, it's installed and seems to be working fine so far. It's a server
> that's still being built so it won't get heavily used yet, but it wouldn't
> be too much of a problem if it got trashed.
>
> Is there any particular testing you'd like me to do - or just shout if I
> get problems?

Please try playing with 'hdparm -X mode' to check if different UDMA/MWDMA/PIO
modes work okay. :)

BTW I made new version of the patch with minor fixups/cleanups:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/atiixp_ide/atiixp_ide-2.6.3-2.patch

Thanks,
Bartlomiej