Re: [patch] Support for SiS 961/961B/962/963/630S/630ET/633/733 IDE

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:07:53PM -0400, David van Hoose wrote:
 
> > The goal of this patch is to add support for the new generation of
> > MuTIOL southbridges by SiS, namely the 961/961B, 962 and 963. These
> > integrate the IDE controller, unlike all other SiS chipsets where the
> > controller is bound to the northbridge.
> > 
> > I had to do quite some research on what SiS IDE controllers exist that
> > don't use the 96* southbridges, and thus found out that the 633 and 733
> > controllers were missing. So those were added too.
> > 
> > This patch hovewer integrates a patch from Lionel which adds 630S/ET
> > UDMA100 support.
> > 
> > And while doing the changes I did also some cleanups, mainly removing a
> > bunch of debug code that doesn't seem very useful when lspci does the
> > same job. And removing the config_drive_xfer_rate in favor of functions
> > from ide-timing.h.
> > 
> > Tested on SiS963, works great.
> > 
> > Patches for current 2.4 and 2.5 attached.
> 
> I never thought about it, but my SiS963 is not recognized in lspci. The 
> below is a link which has a diagram of the SiS648/SiS963 combo that is 
> on my motherboard. Would it enhance performance any or would this 
> correction just be cosmetic?

There will most likely be no change for you.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR