> Agreed. It sounds like there is still breakage in the BIOS - since the > reference VSA code accounts for accesses of different alignments, but its > probably not worth going back and forth about it. Like I said, if Alan > and Jeff are game, we should go with the 5536 driver, and now that we've > debated it extensively, I'm fine with the MSR accesses - I'm satisfied > that we at least considered the alternative and dismissed it for technically > sound reasons. Even if we use PCI accesses and keep them dword along with the right timing it makes sense to have a 5536 driver for this. > > Is there anything we can do to make the transition smooth for anybody who > may be using pata_amd in 2.6.23? We can make pata_amd pick it up if pata_cs5536 is not selected for now - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
