From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:15 -0400 Message-ID: <42FBBB6F.1030306@pobox.com> References: <200508111424.43150.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <42FBB6C5.2070404@pobox.com> <200508111445.41428.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:51880 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932452AbVHKU4U (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200508111445.41428.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 2:36 pm, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>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 >>> >>>Index: work-vga/drivers/ide/Kconfig >>>=================================================================== >>>--- work-vga.orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2005-08-10 14:57:47.000000000 -0600 >>>+++ work-vga/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2005-08-10 14:58:02.000000000 -0600 >>>@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ >>> >>> config IDE_GENERIC >>> tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support" >>>+ depends on !IA64 >> >>hmmmmmmmmm. Are you POSITIVE that the legacy IDE ports are never enabled? >> >>In modern Intel chipsets, this still occurs with e.g. combined mode. > > > I don't know about combined mode. If the legacy IDE ports are > enabled, shouldn't they be described via ACPI, and hence usable > via the ide_pnp - PNPACPI - ACPI path? No idea... that's more for platform IA64 people to answer :/ Jeff