From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: "Gaston, Jason D" <jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6][RESEND] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ICH9
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:43:26 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4563AB3E.9050305@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE07A5A356@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com>
Gaston, Jason D wrote:
> I was thinking that if a functional difference was found, it would be
> easier to tweak.
>
> There are differences between the ICH8 and ICH9 SATA controller. For
> example, the PCS register now has port present bits that used to be
> reserved in ICH8. I'm not sure how or if these could be used in
> ata_piix.
Separating ich9 out from ich8 isn't difficult. Let's do that when there
is need. ata_piix always has been using the same entry if there is no
code difference and I don't see any reason to depart from that with ich9.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-22 1:30 [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6][RESEND] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ICH9 Gaston, Jason D
2006-11-22 1:43 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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2006-11-28 18:05 Gaston, Jason D
2006-11-22 20:36 Jason Gaston
2006-11-22 23:55 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-28 8:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-22 0:53 Jason Gaston
2006-11-22 1:22 ` Tejun Heo
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