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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