Re: libATA PATA status report, new patch

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Feb 06, 2006, at 11:46, Alan Cox wrote:
> With the exception of HPA and serialize support its now pretty  
> close to a straight replacement for drivers/ide on x86 systems (and  
> boxes using PCI devices only). There is other stuff that wants  
> improving still like error recovery on CRC, but its getting close.
>
> Please remember that functionality equivalence, and much cleaner  
> code doesn't mean less bugs yet, there is a *lot* of testing and  
> hammering on the code needed before it is production ready for  
> switching.

 From looking at your status file, I can't tell if you've implemented  
the PowerMac IDE support yet (Based on your email's mention of x86- 
only, I'm guessing not).  If/when you do get that support done, I'd  
be more than happy to test it for you on my PPC boxen.  Overall this  
work looks very nice, thanks!

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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