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From: yulin <yulin@starsoftcomm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Uwe Koziolek <uwe.koziolek@gmx.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, micha.biermann@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc4]: libata: PATA-mode fixes for sis_sata
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:20:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469B386D.8020709@starsoftcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070716100401.7a0b850e@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox 写道:
>> So one leader of our IT, who is a Windows expert, suggested we can use 
>> int 13h and I/O in Linux. But int 13h just is used in real mode.
>>
>> Can you give me some advice to persuade him? If it is feasible, can you 
>> introduce me?
>>     
>
> int13 is real mode only, runs polled and 16bit with one command at a
> time. As far as I know even Windows no longer uses it for anything but
> booting.
>
>   
>> Even can you give some good solutions to solve the compatibility problem?
>>     
>
> For hardware where we have info the right answer is to report bugs and
> get them fixed (or indeed send fixes). For the more general case the
> ata_generic driver will drive anything that is SFF8038i compliant and you
> can just add PCI identifiers to it for anything you hit.
>
> I am working on a generic ACPI driver to go with it for such cases.
>
> Alan
>
>
>   

Thank you for your help and explanations.

I will do some research work on ata_generic driver. Can you give me some 
advice or related information to do deeper research?

I alse found the problem of ACPI in our product, so we turn it off, but 
always caused some other problems. So i think a generic ACPI driver will 
be welcome.

And your mail is the best message received today before going home.

:)

 From YuLin

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-14 21:40 [PATCH 2.6.22-rc4]: libata: PATA-mode fixes for sis_sata Uwe Koziolek
2007-07-02 14:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-16  2:34 ` yulin
2007-07-16  9:04   ` Alan Cox
2007-07-16  9:20     ` yulin [this message]

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