From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:56:59 +0000 Message-ID: <20070219215659.15539fb3@localhost.localdomain> References: <200701260724.l0Q7OISY027645@toshiba.co.jp> <200702151141.49708.jens@de.ibm.com> <20070215171414.GU923@austin.ibm.com> <200702151909.26082.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:39426 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932689AbXBSVHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:07:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200702151909.26082.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Linas Vepstas , Jens Osterkamp , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, Andrew Morton , James K Lewis > 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