Re: [SIS IDE] Enhanced SiS96x support

From: Lionel Bouton (Lionel.Bouton@inet6.fr)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 05:37:09 EST


 Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:57:02AM +0200, Lionel Bouton wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>you'll find attached a patch against 2.4.21-ac1 for the SiS IDE driver.
>>
>>This is a 99% Vojtech work :
>>- Independant southbridge detection (no need to add MuTIOL northbridge
>>PCI ids to the driver),
>>- Lots of code cleanup,
>>- Debug code removed (unused for a while, I will maintain it in my tree
>>if needed),
>>
>>I changed 2 things :
>>- SiS745 was reported to me as a MuTIOL northbridge chip, it is treated
>>as such by removing it from the integrated chip table,
>>
>>
>
>Look at http://www.sis.com/products/chipsets/oa/socketa/745.htm
>The chip has internal MuTIOL, but no 961/2/3 chip can be connected
>to it. I'm not sure, of course, whether the internal IDE of this chip
>behaves like a 961/2/3, though.
>
>

The SiS chipset line can be quite confusing :

- the 730 was roughly a 735 with integrated video,
- the 740 is a pure northbridge with integrated video whereas the 745
docs mention MuTIOL (usually a hint for separated north/south bridges)
but the southbridge is still integrated and seems to be ATA100 like the
735. I hope there isn't any 745 revision with different capabilities I'm
not yet aware of...

I'll post a one liner this evening or a full patch if Alan and/or Linus
didn't already patch their tree.

LB.

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