Subject: Re: Highpoint IDE types
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:38:30 +0000
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On Maw, 2005-11-08 at 17:35 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> May we assume that this information was gathered in the interest of 
> something beyond pedantic curiousity? Will this simplify the driver 
> code, improve performance or reliability, etc?

Something like that

I've been collecting the data to get the libata driver right, and in
doing so even with the partial data I had came across some chunks of
data that are wrong in the ide/pci driver.

Its not made easier by the fact hpt seem to have taken down their own
drivers for older (now "unsupported" I suspect) chips.

The frequency and chip id data is needed to correctly tune the PLLs and
to identify the right base frequency for timing.

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