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From: Uwe Koziolek <uwe.koziolek@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: SiS 180 pata
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:54:19 +0200
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Hello Jeff,

when do you expect, this new feature in libata will be available?

with best regards
Uwe Koziolek

> Uwe Koziolek wrote:
> > Hello Jeff,
> > 
> > will you support this specific constellation?, or should i try to
> > implemenent master/slave support to sata_sis and hope this will solve
> > the problem.
> 
> 
> It is a similar problem to supporting PATA port of Promise hardware, in 
> that you need to use different code paths when talking to the same 
> hardware.  It isn't as easy as the solution in ata_piix unfortunately. 
> I need to split struct ata_probe_ent into per-bus pieces, then both 
> Promise and SIS180 PATA can be supported.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
>