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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1997-12-16 05:34:03 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1997-12-16 05:34:03 +0000
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Merge with Linux 2.1.72, part 1.
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-ide.txt -- Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive in Linux 2.1.xx
+ide.txt -- Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive in Linux 2.1.68+
===============================================================================
Supported by:
Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> -- disks, interfaces, probing
@@ -56,17 +56,19 @@ NEW! - support for IDE ATAPI *floppy* drives
(courtesy of Juha Laiho <jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi>).
- auto-detect of disk translations by examining partition table
- ide-cd.c now compiles separate from ide.c
- - Bus-Master DMA support for Intel PCI Triton chipset IDE interfaces
- - for details, see comments at top of triton.c
- ide-cd.c now supports door locking and auto-loading.
- Also preliminary support for multisession
and direct reads of audio data.
- experimental support for Promise DC4030VL caching interface card
- email thanks/problems to: peterd@pnd-pc.demon.co.uk
- the hdparm-3.1 package can be used to set PIO modes for some chipsets.
-NEW! - support for the OPTi 82C621 chipset, courtesy of Jaromir Koutek.
+NEW! - support for setting PIO modes with the OPTi 82C621, courtesy of Jaromir Koutek.
NEW! - support for loadable modules
NEW! - optional SCSI host adapter emulation for ATAPI devices
+NEW! - generic PCI Bus-Master DMA support
+NEW! - works with most Pentium PCI systems, chipsets, add-on cards
+NEW! - works with regular DMA as well as Ultra DMA
+NEW! - automatically probes for all PCI IDE interfaces
For work in progress, see the comments in ide.c, ide-cd.c, triton.c, ...