Re: [SIS IDE] Enhanced SiS96x support

[Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@inet6.fr>]

 Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:57:02AM +0200, Lionel Bouton wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>you'll find attached a patch against 2.4.21-ac1 for the SiS IDE driver.
>>
>>This is a 99% Vojtech work :
>>- Independant southbridge detection (no need to add MuTIOL northbridge 
>>PCI ids to the driver),
>>- Lots of code cleanup,
>>- Debug code removed (unused for a while, I will maintain it in my tree 
>>if needed),
>>
>>I changed 2 things :
>>- SiS745 was reported to me as a MuTIOL northbridge chip, it is treated 
>>as such by removing it from the integrated chip table,
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>>
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>Look at http://www.sis.com/products/chipsets/oa/socketa/745.htm
>The chip has internal MuTIOL, but no 961/2/3 chip can be connected
>to it. I'm not sure, of course, whether the internal IDE of this chip
>behaves like a 961/2/3, though.
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>

The SiS chipset line can be quite confusing :

- the 730 was roughly a 735 with integrated video,
- the 740 is a pure northbridge with integrated video whereas the 745 
docs mention MuTIOL (usually a hint for separated north/south bridges) 
but the southbridge is still integrated and seems to be ATA100 like the 
735. I hope there isn't any 745 revision with different capabilities I'm 
not yet aware of...

I'll post a one liner this evening or a full patch if Alan and/or Linus 
didn't already patch their tree.

LB.