Re: VIA, 32bit PIO and 2.5.x kernel

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:15:58 +0200


On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:12:29AM +0100, Russell King wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:04:12AM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > 3. Make 32 bit PIO transfers the global default.
>
> This is fine, as long as you allow some interfaces to say "I really want
> to be 16-bit PIO only".
>
> I *need* 16-bit transfers for many ARM-based IDE stuff. 32-bit is not
> an option on many, if not all ARM-based PCMCIA stuff.

Basically it should work both ways - VIA and AMD interfaces *need*
32-bit in the same manner.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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