Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
This would brake setups which currently work OK, i.e. BIOS set things up (reminds me about cmd64x vs broken MWDMA)... The RightThing(tm) to do is to fix alim15x3 driver to program DMA timings (especially given that pata_ali seems to already contain the needed code).
I am not ready to trust that pata_ali works as well as alim15x3 in all cases. Someone should test e.g. Alpha AXP systems with IDE (use alim15x3) to make sure all is well.
alim15x3 covers buggy, ugly, quirky chipsets. I consider that coverage in general highly fragile.
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