Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote:
> I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or
> 2.2.19 kernel. For Linux to become a successful desktop platform, it needs
> better IDE support. Andre has done a tremendous job in getting the IDE
> driver support for so many chipsets such as Promise, CMD, VIA, and
> HPT.

PIIX tuning in 2.4.x hard locks some laptops, and Via needed a new
maintainer to be fully debugged...

	Jeff