include piix driver in lpia

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 18:18 -0700, Pan, Jacob jun wrote:
> the patch to libata is not complete, it does not work. for now we rely
> on the ide driver for DMA.

Will this be complete by gutsy release? If not, perhaps we can remove
this part of the patch out of our tree? Anyway, disabling ata_piix in
favor of piix sounds like the way to go right now.

> - 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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