From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: "zhao, forrest" <forrest.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, htejun@gmail.com,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]ACPI support for SATA/PATA
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:14:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C786D8.5060801@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153899345.4957.59.camel@forrest26.sh.intel.com>
zhao, forrest wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> In ACPI spec 3.0, section 9.9 defines 4 objects for PATA/SATA:
>
> _GTF is for both PATA and SATA, which is used to return ATA task file
> needed to re-init the drive;
> _SDD is SATA-only object, which is used to inform the platform of the
> type of device attached to a port;
> _GTM and _STM are PATA-only objects, which are used to get/set PATA
> timing information(i.e. PIO and DMA speed).
It seems to be quite common for ICH*M notebooks to use the SATA ports
to attach PATA drives with PATA->SATA bridge chips in the middle.
In this case, one would expect the _GTM and _STM objects to be necessary,
even though Linux thinks it's a SATA situation.
Do the patches take this into account?
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-26 7:35 [PATCH 0/2]ACPI support for SATA/PATA zhao, forrest
2006-07-26 15:14 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-07-27 1:44 ` zhao, forrest
2006-07-27 18:03 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-08 17:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-08 19:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
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