Re: [patch] Support for SiS 961/961B/962/963/630S/630ET/633/733 IDE

[David van Hoose]

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The goal of this patch is to add support for the new generation of
> MuTIOL southbridges by SiS, namely the 961/961B, 962 and 963. These
> integrate the IDE controller, unlike all other SiS chipsets where the
> controller is bound to the northbridge.
> 
> I had to do quite some research on what SiS IDE controllers exist that
> don't use the 96* southbridges, and thus found out that the 633 and 733
> controllers were missing. So those were added too.
> 
> This patch hovewer integrates a patch from Lionel which adds 630S/ET
> UDMA100 support.
> 
> And while doing the changes I did also some cleanups, mainly removing a
> bunch of debug code that doesn't seem very useful when lspci does the
> same job. And removing the config_drive_xfer_rate in favor of functions
> from ide-timing.h.
> 
> Tested on SiS963, works great.
> 
> Patches for current 2.4 and 2.5 attached.

I never thought about it, but my SiS963 is not recognized in lspci. The 
below is a link which has a diagram of the SiS648/SiS963 combo that is 
on my motherboard. Would it enhance performance any or would this 
correction just be cosmetic?

Thanks,
David

Link: http://www.sis.com/products/chipsets/oa/pentium4/648.htm