From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
Jens Osterkamp <jens@de.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
James K Lewis <jim@jklewis.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:56:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070219215659.15539fb3@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702151909.26082.arnd@arndb.de>
> I fear that the hardest part is yet to come, when we integrate the
> driver for the the PS3 (currently called gelic_net) into spidernet.
> The trouble is that the hardware is sufficiently similar to share
> all the high-level mechanisms like the DMA data structures and
> descriptor chains, but the low-level mechanisms are hidden in the
> hypervisor on the PS3. Someone will have to invest a significant
> amount of time coordinating this so we don't break celleb and qs20
> in the process.
That to me implies they should be different drivers using a common
libata-something file. The PPC mac drivers likewise are currently mashed
into one in drivers/ide but really want splitting for libata with some
kind of libata-pmac owning the shared stuff
Alan
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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
paulus@samba.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
James K Lewis <jim@jklewis.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:56:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070219215659.15539fb3@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702151909.26082.arnd@arndb.de>
> I fear that the hardest part is yet to come, when we integrate the
> driver for the the PS3 (currently called gelic_net) into spidernet.
> The trouble is that the hardware is sufficiently similar to share
> all the high-level mechanisms like the DMA data structures and
> descriptor chains, but the low-level mechanisms are hidden in the
> hypervisor on the PS3. Someone will have to invest a significant
> amount of time coordinating this so we don't break celleb and qs20
> in the process.
That to me implies they should be different drivers using a common
libata-something file. The PPC mac drivers likewise are currently mashed
into one in drivers/ide but really want splitting for libata with some
kind of libata-pmac owning the shared stuff
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-19 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-26 7:24 [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb Akira Iguchi
2007-01-26 7:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-26 7:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-14 5:19 ` Akira Iguchi
2007-02-14 5:19 ` Akira Iguchi
[not found] ` <200702140518.l1E5IoWX010896@toshiba.co.jp>
2007-02-14 5:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 5:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 5:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-15 5:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-15 7:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 7:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 10:41 ` Jens Osterkamp
2007-02-15 10:41 ` Jens Osterkamp
2007-02-15 16:03 ` Jim Lewis
2007-02-15 17:14 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-02-15 17:14 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-02-15 18:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-15 18:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-15 19:11 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-02-15 19:11 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-02-19 21:56 ` Alan [this message]
2007-02-19 21:56 ` Alan
2007-02-19 21:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 21:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 23:46 ` Alan
2007-02-19 23:46 ` Alan
2007-02-19 23:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-19 23:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-19 23:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 23:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 23:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 23:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-20 8:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-02-20 8:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-02-15 20:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 20:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 0:18 ` [PATCHSET] spidernet, sungem_phy: consolidated patch series Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:18 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:43 ` [PATCH 1/12]: sungem_phy: support bcm5461 phy, autoneg Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:44 ` [PATCH 2/12]: spidernet: compile break Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:45 ` [PATCH 3/12] spidernet: autoneg support for Celleb Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:46 ` [PATCH 4/12] spidernet: load firmware when open Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:48 ` [PATCH 5/12] spidernet: spidernet: add support for Celleb Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:49 ` [PATCH 6/12] spidernet: remove txram full logging Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:50 ` [PATCH 7/12] spidernet: move medium variable into card struct Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:52 ` [PATCH 8/12] Spidernet: separate hardware state from driver state Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:53 ` [PATCH: 9/12]: spidernet: fix racy double-free of skb Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:55 ` [PATCH 10/12] spidernet: transmit race Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:57 ` [PATCH 11/12] spidernet: janitorial, typos Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 0:58 ` [PATCH 12/12]: spidernet: maintainership Linas Vepstas
2007-02-16 14:46 ` [PATCH 1/12]: sungem_phy: support bcm5461 phy, autoneg Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 16:19 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-02-15 5:12 ` spidernet (was Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb) Jeff Garzik
2007-02-15 5:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-15 7:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 7:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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2007-01-26 7:24 [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb Akira Iguchi
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