From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Cc: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:03:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020224220356.C1706@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202241954.g1OJsPA32151@fenrus.demon.nl> <3C7946D9.1020908@evision-ventures.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C7946D9.1020908@evision-ventures.com>; from dalecki@evision-ventures.com on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:02:33PM +0100
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> > In article <3C79435E.8030208@evision-ventures.com> you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>linux ide driver anyway. And I think that 2.4.x and above don't run on
> >>i386's anymore anyway.
> >>
> >
> > it was about the i386 architecture, not just 80386 cpus. And yes 2.4 still
> > runs on those; you'be surprised how many
> > embedded systems run 80386 equivalents...
>
> Interresting. But do they still incorporate ST509 and other
> archaic controllers? Or do they have broken BIOS-es which don't
> setup the geometry information properly? I don't think so.
Actually you cannot connect an IDE drive to a ST509 harddrive
controller. So that isn't handled by the IDE driver anyway and the
change won't affect people using ST509 controllers.
> Well now I'm quite convinced. We can point those people to the legacy
> single host driver anyway...
They have to use it anyway.
> And then the tradeoff goes just in favour of supporting more and more
> common new hardware - it will just make more people happy than it will
> make people loose :-).
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-24 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-24 13:52 [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt Andries.Brouwer
2002-02-24 19:47 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 19:54 ` arjan
2002-02-24 20:02 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 20:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-24 21:05 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 21:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2002-02-24 19:58 ` [PATCH] IDE clean 13 Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 21:17 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 20:02 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt Eric Krout
2002-02-24 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-28 9:44 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-28 14:19 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-28 18:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-28 18:13 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-25 11:45 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-02-25 12:03 ` Martin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-25 1:29 Andries.Brouwer
2002-02-25 1:33 Andries.Brouwer
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