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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nvidia cable detection problems (was [PATCH] amd74xx: don't configure udma mode higher than BIOS did)
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:43:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C7A4FC.6040501@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070205191318.39f84ced@localhost.localdomain>

Alan wrote:
>>> Well we can certainly do some of that if ACPI is present and active. In
>>> particular since _GTM will give us current modes allowing for hotplug and
>>> post BIOS boot kexec etc it ought to be safe to do Tejun's hack that way.
>>> We could even probe UDMA3+ capable devices by doing _STM to a high mode
>>> and _GTM to determine the cable type 8)
>> Glad to see the problem getting solved.  Now that we know the solution,
>> any volunteers?  :-)
> 
> I am currently putting together an experimental pata_acpi driver to play
> with this stuff. May take a bit of time while I work out the current acpi
> interface gunge and how to expand it.
> 
> The fact we have to try each mode to see what we can set doesn't make it
> pretty either!

Make sure you take a look at libata-dev.git#acpi which is the origin of 
the libata ACPI support found in -mm

That's pending for an upstream merge.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-05  7:58 [PATCH] amd74xx: don't configure udma mode higher than BIOS did Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 11:24 ` Alan
2007-02-05 12:16   ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 12:33     ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 13:24       ` Alan
2007-02-05 14:17         ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 13:22     ` Alan
2007-02-05 14:07       ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 14:34         ` Nvidia cable detection problems (was [PATCH] amd74xx: don't configure udma mode higher than BIOS did) Alan
2007-02-05 14:50           ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 15:49             ` Alan
     [not found]             ` <58cb370e0702050709w1b7682dr5dff9e7ce69465a@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-05 17:08               ` Allen Martin
2007-02-05 18:12                 ` Alan
2007-02-05 18:36                   ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 18:55                     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-05 19:15                       ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-05 21:27                       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-05 22:02                         ` Alan
2007-02-05 22:00                           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-05 19:13                     ` Alan
2007-02-05 21:43                       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-02-05 15:32         ` [PATCH] amd74xx: don't configure udma mode higher than BIOS did Sergei Shtylyov

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