From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] sis5513 fix for SiS962 chipset Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:11:09 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1094886669.13571.3.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de> References: <1094826555.7868.186.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de> <1094828803.13450.4.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de> <4141C8C6.1030307@inet6.fr> <200409102321.17042.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:9628 "EHLO debian.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268104AbUIKHSZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:18:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200409102321.17042.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Lionel Bouton , LKML , Linux-IDE On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 23:21, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Yep. :/ Lionel, can I push this fix upstream? > > Could somebody enlighten me what exactly 'remapping mode' does? > > Bartlomiej The 5518 version of the IDE controller has a config bit which (re)maps the main config registers to 5513 compatible offsets. So the 5513 code can be used with some minor tweaks. If you don't use the remapping you have to modify / rewrite quite a portion of the code in order to get it working with the 5518 chip version. tglx