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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>,
	IDE Linux <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Doug Maxey <dwm@maxeymade.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: libata PATA support - work items?
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:50:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104886199.17176.115.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DB299C.3030405@pobox.com>

On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 23:41, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So, that said, I think it is important for libata to fully support PATA, 
> if it is to support it at all.  That means handling the errata that Alan 
> always bugs me about, and that means handling C/H/S support as well.

I think so. If it supports all the features of the old IDE layer we get
to have a party when we eliminate the need for drivers/ide once and for
all.

That means
- Hotplug (controller and disk)
- CHS
- "Not quite generic" IDE DMA (eg CS5520)
- VDMA (eg CS5520)
- IORDY timers (not handled well in drivers/ide but needed)
- Funky Maxtor "LBA48.. maybe" oddments
- Missing slave detection
- Controller errata hooks (modes, drives, timings, "dont touch during an
I/O" etc)
- Drive nIEN bugs
- No nIEN cases
- Drives that don't do some DMA/modes right
- Crazy shit "Don't DMA from the page below 640K" (not handled by
drivers/ide but an AMD errata
	fixed by using a PS/2 mouse)
- Serialize (RZ1000, CMD640, some 469, etc)
- Bandwidth arbiter (not in drivers/ide but needed)
- Non PCI shared IRQ mess 8(

Hopefully most of this can be buried away in a pata-errata.c 8)


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-05  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-30 10:42 libata PATA support - work items? Albert Lee
2005-01-01 19:19 ` Eric Mudama
2005-01-03 20:56   ` Greg Freemyer
2005-01-03 21:20     ` Eric Mudama
2005-01-03 22:09       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-04 23:43         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-04 23:41   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-05  0:50     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-05  2:42       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-05  3:43         ` Alan Cox
2005-01-05 12:59       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-04 23:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-06  8:51   ` Albert Lee
2005-01-06 21:29     ` Alan Cox
2005-01-06 23:07       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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