From: "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
jordan.crouse@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_cs5536: ATA driver for Geode companion chip
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:49:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76366b180710132149i7dabb3dcv21abaafd5814a923@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071011112021.3be68418@the-village.bc.nu>
On 10/11/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:38:19 -0400
> "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > This is a driver for the ATA controller on the Geode CS5536 companion
> > chip. The PCI device ID for this device was previously claimed by
> > pata_amd.c but the PIO timings were not correct. This driver also
> > works around a bug in some BIOSes that handle unaligned access to the
> > PCI config registers poorly. Finally, the driver allows fallback to
> > using MSR registers for configuration on BIOSes that are truly
> > broken.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
I've been using the driver (boot drive on the port) since Martin's
post and haven't experienced any problems.
Tested-by: Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-11 7:38 [PATCH] pata_cs5536: ATA driver for Geode companion chip Martin K. Petersen
2007-10-11 10:20 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-14 4:49 ` Andrew Paprocki [this message]
2007-10-14 19:42 ` Andrew Paprocki
2007-10-14 19:51 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-14 20:57 ` Andrew Paprocki
2007-10-15 19:41 ` Jeff Garzik
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