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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