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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c b/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c
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@@ -37,6 +37,49 @@
*
* Hardware documentation available at http://developer.intel.com/
*
+ * Documentation
+ * Publically available from Intel web site. Errata documentation
+ * is also publically available. As an aide to anyone hacking on this
+ * driver the list of errata that are relevant is below.going back to
+ * PIIX4. Older device documentation is now a bit tricky to find.
+ *
+ * The chipsets all follow very much the same design. The orginal Triton
+ * series chipsets do _not_ support independant device timings, but this
+ * is fixed in Triton II. With the odd mobile exception the chips then
+ * change little except in gaining more modes until SATA arrives. This
+ * driver supports only the chips with independant timing (that is those
+ * with SITRE and the 0x44 timing register). See pata_oldpiix and pata_mpiix
+ * for the early chip drivers.
+ *
+ * Errata of note:
+ *
+ * Unfixable
+ * PIIX4 errata #9 - Only on ultra obscure hw
+ * ICH3 errata #13 - Not observed to affect real hw
+ * by Intel
+ *
+ * Things we must deal with
+ * PIIX4 errata #10 - BM IDE hang with non UDMA
+ * (must stop/start dma to recover)
+ * 440MX errata #15 - As PIIX4 errata #10
+ * PIIX4 errata #15 - Must not read control registers
+ * during a PIO transfer
+ * 440MX errata #13 - As PIIX4 errata #15
+ * ICH2 errata #21 - DMA mode 0 doesn't work right
+ * ICH0/1 errata #55 - As ICH2 errata #21
+ * ICH2 spec c #9 - Extra operations needed to handle
+ * drive hotswap [NOT YET SUPPORTED]
+ * ICH2 spec c #20 - IDE PRD must not cross a 64K boundary
+ * and must be dword aligned
+ * ICH2 spec c #24 - UDMA mode 4,5 t85/86 should be 6ns not 3.3
+ *
+ * Should have been BIOS fixed:
+ * 450NX: errata #19 - DMA hangs on old 450NX
+ * 450NX: errata #20 - DMA hangs on old 450NX
+ * 450NX: errata #25 - Corruption with DMA on old 450NX
+ * ICH3 errata #15 - IDE deadlock under high load
+ * (BIOS must set dev 31 fn 0 bit 23)
+ * ICH3 errata #18 - Don't use native mode
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
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