“Alan Cox posted an updated LibATA PATA (IDE) status report on
the lkml. Improved from a previous status report he noted, ‘current
kernels now support HPA (Host Protected Area) but default to
honouring it. Probably a wrong default for PATA but we need to
decide the right way to expose it nicely.’ He went on to note, ‘no
PATA hotplug support yet. Need warmplug helpers for some chipsets
(eg some intel ICH) to avoid risk of hangs.’“Later in the report he listed around 40 chipsets describing
LibATA’s PATA support for each, ranging from ‘rock solid’ for
ATIIXP and “solid” for AMD, TRIFLEX, MARVELL, MPIIX, OLDPIIX,
NETCELL, RZ1000, SERVERWORKS, SIL680, and VIA, to ‘still
experimental’ for NS87410 and ‘no idea’ for IT8213…”
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