Re: ALi15x3 UDMA Kernel Support

[Brian Macy]

Get Andre Hedrick's ide patches for 2.2.x kernels. There are "issues"
getting UDMA to work on different revisions of the chip but you should
at least get Multi-Word DMA. If anyone know how to get UDMA on all rev's
of the chip let me know.

Brian Macy

Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to achieve UDMA support for my ASUS P5A motherboard in linux.
> ASUS's website points to http://bean.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~trouble/LinuxIDE for
> linux IDE drivers.  The INSTALL file in the download seems to indicate that
> ALi15x3 support is included in linux-2.3.x kernels (and therefore, I
> suppose intended for release in linux-2.4.x kernels), however, the INSTALL
> file instructs the reader to replace the original alim15x3.c driver with
> the one being provided there, and to rewrite a bit of code in the ide-pci.c
> file.
> 
> Could you describe the differences between the two alim15x3.c drivers and
> the coding changes?  I'm not a C programmer, and I don't understand
> hardware driver development details.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Lee Howard
> 
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