Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

Alan Cox
2005-08-12T08:40:12Z

On Iau, 2005-08-11 at 14:24 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke
> around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs
> on HP ia64 systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

Nak-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Assuming all IA-64 boxes are PCI or better then you actually want to
edit include/asm-ia64/ide.h and edit ide_default_io_base where someone
years ago cut and pasted x86-32 values so that case 2-5 are removed.
Then you will just probe the compatibility mode PCI addresses for system
IDE channels.