From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Organization: CC CTU Prague
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:29:52 MET-1
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Subject: Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PC
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gandalf@winds.org
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On  9 Feb 01 at 16:58, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> Unfortunately the PCI speed measuring code needs help from the chipset
> itself, so it isn't possible to implement in generic code. Maybe a
> callback could be added to the chipset-specific drivers, though ...
> 
> I do have some plans with ide-pci.c, so ...

Is not PCI speed determined by host-bridge setting (and not by IDE 
interface)? In that case we should determine bus speed on PCI bus scan 
using chipset specific drivers. Other non IDE devices, such as matroxfb, 
may be interested in PCI speed too.
                                        Best regards,
                                            Petr Vandrovec
                                            vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                            
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