Re: Problems with AMD 768 IDE support

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 20:13, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2002, Ernst Lehmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have here a Dual-Athlon Box, with a AMD760MPX Chipset and AMD768 IDE.
> > 
> > In the base 2.4.18 kernel there seems to be no support for the
> > IDE-Chipset
> 
> It is supposed to be 'standard'. If you enable:
> 
> CONFIG_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MODES=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD=y
> ... it should work. The amd74xx was seperate, it was a "Viper" chip-set.
> I believe that the newer AMD Chip-Sets are generic.

They are not generic, although they are fairly similar. You need the -ac
tree right now for the 760MP/MPX IDE, although the port wont be hard