Re: ide patch + kernel 2.2.17-pre12

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (dake@staszic.waw.pl)
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:47:59 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:41:24PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I'm trying to... I have just been busy recently... first I was
> > taking exams on polytechnic... then I played heavily with my VIA trying
> > to discover 80-c bit -> instead I found out few other bits, screwed my
> > FS completly twice and came to conlusion that there is no way on VIA to
> > get info about cable type ;) and then I left my home for 8 days to have
> > some rest... end of boring story.
> >
> > Now I'm back and will make ide.2.2.17pre13.20000711.patch soon...
> > Right now there is http://republika.pl/ide.2.2.17pre6.20000619.patch.bz2
> >
> > I got used to the fact that my messages are "missed"...
> > but could you at least tell me what do you think about
> > 1). generic ATA tuning
>
> A very good idea. There is too much duplicated code in the current
> PCI ide tuning drivers.
>

I have already posted working code without too much luck...
http://republika.pl/bkz/git-10.README
http://republika.pl/bkz/git-10.diff.bz2

> > 2). ide-info and moving all these /proc/ide/chipset to userland
> > (right now it requires root priviliges but next version
> > will use /proc/ide/ide0/config)
>
> Adding a lside command ala the lspci and lsusb?

yes... but currently it is called ide-info... wip...
http://republika.pl/bkz/ide-info-0.0.3.tar.bz2

>
> > 3). rewritten amd7409.c (clone of Vojtech's via82cxxx.c)
> > (no f*ck*ng feedback, people with amd7409 don't like
> > /proc info and overclocking?)
>
> Careful about this, I'm still not sure I've got the MWDMA timing right.
> Seems at least MWDMA1 is broken on MWDMA1-only drives.

I'm careful and I think that MWDMA0 is also invalid, MWDMA2 is ok...
I will check them against spec when i have some time...

>
> Btw, the link above is not valid.

thanks... should be:
http://republika.pl/bkz/ide.2.2.17pre6.20000619.patch.bz2

--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<bkz@linux-ide.org>




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