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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@mkp.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, info-linux@geode.amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pata_cs5536: ATA driver for Geode companion chip
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:45:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1tzp8vxzb.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071003192232.558ec72b@the-village.bc.nu> (Alan Cox's message of "Wed\, 3 Oct 2007 19\:22\:32 +0100")

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

Alan> The older AMD ex NS ex Cyrix chipsets mishandle 64K DMA blocks -
Alan> is that the case for the CS5536 or not - does it consider a PRD
Alan> entry with zero length as 64K or 0 bytes

The databook says: "The size must be in multiples of 1 WORD (2 bytes)
or zero (which means a 64 KB transfer)."


>> + if ((cfg & IDE_CFG_CHANEN) == 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "CS5536:
>> disabled by BIOS\n");

Alan> To save Jeff whining - he'll want that to be DRV_NAME or similar
Alan> and to call it pata_cs5536

Ok.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      http://mkp.net/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 17:28 [PATCH 1/1] pata_cs5536: ATA driver for Geode companion chip Martin K. Petersen
2007-10-03 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-03 18:20   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 18:45   ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2007-10-03 18:51     ` Alan Cox
2007-10-03 20:31 ` Jordan Crouse
2007-10-03 20:59   ` Alan Cox
2007-10-03 21:18     ` Jordan Crouse
2007-10-03 22:32       ` Martin K. Petersen
2007-10-03 22:56         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-10  1:25 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-10  4:33   ` Martin K. Petersen
2007-10-10 15:20     ` Jordan Crouse
2007-10-10 17:39       ` Andrew Paprocki
2007-10-11  7:22         ` Andrew Paprocki

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