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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata_piix: fix pio/mwdma programming (for testing, don't
 apply)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:34:54 +0300
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To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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Hello.

Mark Lord wrote:

>> It's amazing how poorly we have programmed PIIX, for the lifespan of 
>> Linux...

> Actually, we've only been fiddling timings on PIIX since 1998 or so,
> when AH began taking over Linux IDE.  Still, 10 years is an eternity.

   The most funny thing is that despite being called piix.c the driver seems 
to have always been broken for the original PIIX which didn't have separate 
mastre/slave timings. :-)

> Cheers

MBR, Sergei