Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:18:32 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: |
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Søren Lott wrote: > in the SATA kconfig menu, the help message from > Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support says: > > CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX: > > This option enables support for ICH5 Serial ATA. > If PATA support was enabled previously, this enables > support for select Intel PIIX/ICH PATA host controllers. > > anyone care to clarify if this mean that having enabled: > > CONFIG_IDE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y > > i can use the PATA ports on a ICH5 controller through libata ? > if not, which is exactly the meaning of "If PATA support was enabled > previously" on this message ?
I agree it is quite confusing wording. Probably should remove all reference to PATA in the CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX Kconfig entry.
The comment is referring to the somewhat-hidden fact that if you define ATA_ENABLE_PATA in include/linux/libata.h, then libata will support your Intel PIIX PATA controllers, in addition to the Intel PIIX SATA controllers.
However, since ATAPI support isn't yet stable, this is of limited usefulness.
Jeff
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