Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac1

Its back, its smaller and it wants a lot of testing. Much of the older stuff has been merged with Marcelo, and some stuff has been dropped out.

+ Handle battery quirk on the Vaio Z600-RE (Paul Mitcheson)
* EHCI USB updates (David Brownell)
+ IDE Raid support for AMI/SI 'Medley' IDE Raid (Arjan van de Ven)
+ NVIDIA nForce2 IDE PCI identifiers (Johannes Deisenhofer,
Tim Krieglstein)
* CPU bitmask truncation fix (Bjorn Helgaas)
o HP100 cleanup (Pavel Machek)
o Fix initial capslock handling on USB keyboard (Pete Zaitcev)
+ Update dscc4 driver for new wan (Francois Romieu)
+ Fix boot on Chaintech 4BEA/4BEA-R and (Alexander Achenbach)
Gigabyte 9EJL by handing wacky E820 memory
reporting
o SysKonnect driver updates (Mirko Lindner)
o Fix memory leak in n_hdlc (Paul Fulghum)
o Fix missing mtd dependancy (Herbert Xu)
+ Clean up ide-tape printk stuff (Pete Zaitcev)
+ IDE tape fixes (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix size reporting of large disks in scsi (Andries Brouwer)
+ Fix excessive stack usage in NMI handlers (Mikael Pettersson)
+ Add support for Epson 785EPX USB printer pcmcia (Khalid Aziz)
* Quirk handler to sort out IDE compatibility (Ivan Kokshaysky)
mishandling
+ Model 1 is valid for PIV in MP table (Egenera)
+ Ethernet padding fixes for various drivers (me)
o Allow trident codec setup to time out (Ian Soboroff)
This can happen with non PM codecs
o Fix broken documentation link (Henning Meier-Geinitz)
o Update video4linux docbook (William Stimson)
o Correct kmalloc check in dpt_i2o (Pablo Menichini)
o Shrink kmap area to required space only (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix irq balancing (Ben LaHaise)
o CPUfreq updates (Dominik Brodowski)
o Fix typo in pmagb fb (John Bradford)
o EDD backport (Matt Domsch)
o First pass at fixing all the ethernet padding (me)

REMOVED FOR NOW

- RMAP

REMOVED FOR GOOD

- LLC (See 2.5)
- VaryIO (Never accepted mainstream)

nForce/nForce2 are complete motherboard chipsets.

Dave

| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Nvidia produces an entire chipset (the nforce and nforce2 chipsets) which have IDE on them as well as a number of other things.

Daniel

Daniel Gryniewicz <[email protected]>

Onboard IDE on the Nvidia nForce and nForce 2 chipset. Seems to be a clone of the AMD one (or vice versa perhaps ?).