From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] TXx9: Add TX4939 SoC support
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:31:47 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BF0243.30801@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080904.010229.108120775.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Hello.
Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
>> At last. Cool. I know this SoC has IDE controller. Planning on
>> submitting a driver?
>>
I myself have the source (outdated and needing a big hammer) and even
the documentaion AFAIR but lack both the hardware (at least locally
accessible) and time.
> Yes, but I'm wondering whether it is worth to submit before converting
> to ata driver.
Well, IDE is still more embedded friendly (not coupled with SCSI --
unlike libata)...
> It seems the drivers/ide in in deep
> cleanup/refactoring state. (linux-next contains 100 patches from
> Bartlomiej!)
>
> Do you think a new ide driver will be accepted?
>
Of course it will. But due to much of refactoring that's been
happening it will require some work to move it forward from the older
version (I guess you have it as well): IDE drivers should now be pretty
close to the libata ones functionally.
> ---
> Atsushi Nemoto
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 13:22 [PATCH 4/6] TXx9: Add TX4939 SoC support Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-03 10:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-03 16:02 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-03 21:31 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2008-09-04 14:41 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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