Re: ATIIXP support (SATA, ATA133)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:01:05 +0100, Enrico Scholz
<enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> are there plans to support newer ATI IXP chipsets? I mean:
> 
> * PCI 1002:4376 which is an ATA133 controller; this should probably work
>   with the already existing drivers/ide/pci/atiixp.c driver

Have you tested it?

> * PCI 1002:4379 which is a SATA controller; I verified that it works
>   with the drivers/ide/pci/atiixp.c driver of 2.6.9 also.

Care to make a patches for 1002:4376 and 1002:4379?

> * PCI 1002:436E and 1002:437A which are both SATA controller. I saw them
>   in the windoze driver file only and can not tell whether they work
>   with atiixp.c
> 
> Although at least one SATA chipset works with the IDE driver, an own
> driver using libata would be the better solution. Does there exist
> already something which can be tested?

At least some of ATi SATA chipsets are based on Silicon Image SATA
so it should be possible to use sata_sil.c for them.

Bartlomiej