Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:48:56 -0800 | From | Mathias Kretschmer <> | Subject | Re: VIA VT610 IDE support for 2.4.28 (trivial) |
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Mathias Kretschmer wrote: > >> hi, >> >> I found an older version of this patch (against 2.4.22) on some >> website. After a little bit of editing it applied cleanly to 2.4.27 >> (and now 2.4.28). It works fine for me on a ASUS P4P800-Deluxe with >> 4x 300GB disks. >> >> Maybe someone finds this patch helpful. Any reason why the original >> patch did not make it into the kernel ? > > > Why not add it to the existing via82cxxx driver, and get better > performance and device tuning?
I only have that one ASUS board and there's data on the disks that I do not want to loose. The current patch worked well for me (performance is pretty decent), so I went with it.
I can modify the VIA driver code, but looking at the various exceptions/quirks for the various VIA chip sets, I'm a bit hesitant to test it on my box.
-Mathias
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