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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] alpha: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Hi Al!

On 3/18/21 6:54 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:56:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Switch the alpha defconfig from the legacy ide driver to libata.
> 
> Umm...  I don't have an IDE alpha box in a usable shape (fans on
> CPU module shat themselves), and it would take a while to resurrect
> it, but I remember the joy it used to cause in some versions.
> 
> Do you have reports of libata variants of drivers actually tested on
> those?

At least pata_cypress works fine on my AlphaStation XP1000:

root@tsunami:~> lspci
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693
0000:00:07.2 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693
0000:00:07.3 USB controller: Contaq Microsystems 82c693
0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01)
0001:01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
0001:01:06.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 06)
0001:01:08.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
0001:02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
root@tsunami:~> lsmod|grep pata
pata_cypress            3595  3
libata                235071  2 ata_generic,pata_cypress
root@tsunami:~>

I also have two AlphaStation 233 currently in storage which I assume use
different IDE chipset which I could test as well.

Adrian

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