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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:20:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061214182010.477073a9@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612141714.55948.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:14:55 +0000
Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE controller 
> and boot off it?

ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix is
specifically for the Intel MPIIX laptop chipset and pata_oldpiix
explicitly for the original PIIX chipset and none of the later ones.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-14 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-14 17:14 libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-14 18:20 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-14 18:32   ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-14 19:53     ` Bill Nottingham
2006-12-14 20:06       ` [PATCH] Fix help text for CONFIG_ATA_PIIX Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-15  0:59         ` Alan
2006-12-16 12:54         ` Alan
2006-12-16 15:46           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-15  0:44     ` libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs Alan

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