include piix driver in lpia

Pan, Jacob jun jacob.jun.pan at intel.com
Sat Aug 4 01:18:58 UTC 2007


the patch to libata is not complete, it does not work. for now we rely
on the ide driver for DMA.

- jacob 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Collins [mailto:ben.collins at ubuntu.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 5:59 PM
>To: Pan, Jacob jun
>Cc: Amit Kucheria; kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: include piix driver in lpia
>
>
>On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:47 -0700, Pan, Jacob jun wrote:
>> Amit,
>> Currently, the lpia configuration does not enable
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX,
>> it is causing slow disk access on Crown Beach board. The Poulsbo
>> specific change is in the piix driver, without it generic ide driver
is
>> used which only supports PIO mode.
>>
>> Can you enable this in the LPIA kernel config?
>
>Didn't this patch also get applied to ata_piix, which is enabled on
>lpia?
>
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