Hi,
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> IDE subsystem has been deprecated since 2009 and the majority
> (if not all) of Linux distributions have switched to use
> libata for ATA support exclusively. However there are still
> some users (mostly old or/and embedded non-x86 systems) that
> have not converted from using IDE subsystem to libata PATA
> drivers. This doesn't seem to be good thing in the long-term
> for Linux as while there is less and less PATA systems left
> in use:
>
> * testing efforts are divided between two subsystems
>
> * having duplicate drivers for same hardware confuses users
>
> This patch converts lemote2f_defconfig to use libata PATA
> drivers.
>
> PS This platform uses CS5536 chipset which (due to historical
> reasons) has basic support in AMD/nVidia PATA host driver and
> full support in a newer CS5536 PATA one (pata_cs5536). Thus
> most likely this platform should switch to using the latter
> host driver.
>
> Cc: Huacai Chen <che...@lemote.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnier...@samsung.com>
Maybe too late but:
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi>
I also tested PATA_CS5536 and that works too, but it gives a slightly
slower disk (27MB/s vs 33MB/s)...
A.
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