On Monday 02 July 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > This would brake setups which currently work OK, i.e. BIOS set things up > > (reminds me about cmd64x vs broken MWDMA)... > > > > The RightThing(tm) to do is to fix alim15x3 driver to program DMA timings > > (especially given that pata_ali seems to already contain the needed code). > > I am not ready to trust that pata_ali works as well as alim15x3 in all > cases. Someone should test e.g. Alpha AXP systems with IDE (use > alim15x3) to make sure all is well.
Sure but there is no problem with the new code in alim15x3 being X86 until it is verified to work with Alpha AXP machines etc... > alim15x3 covers buggy, ugly, quirky chipsets. I consider that coverage > in general highly fragile. and in case of MWDMA modes also highly dependent on BIOS settings which very likely results in broken suspend/resume... Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
