From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide: PATA driver for Celleb Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:07:16 +0900 Message-ID: <4562CFD4.6040702@gmail.com> References: <200611210959.kAL9x8eH026223@toshiba.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:4996 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030810AbWKUKH0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:07:26 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so1456902ugc for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:07:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200611210959.kAL9x8eH026223@toshiba.co.jp> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Akira Iguchi Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp Akira Iguchi wrote: > Dear everyone, > > This is the patch (based on 2.6.19-rc4) for PATA controller of > Toshiba Cell reference set(Celleb). The reference set consists > of Cell, 512MB memory, Super Companion Chip(SCC) and some > peripherals such as HDD, GbE, etc. You can see brief explanation > and picture of Cell reference set at following URLs. > > http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_09/pr2001.htm > http://cell-industries.com/toshiba_announces.php > > We use a drivers/ide driver because its design is more suitable for > SCC IDE controller than libata driver. Since SCC supports only 32bit > read/write, we must override many callbacks of ata_port_operations > by modifying generic helpers. Each time the libata common code is > updated, we must update those modified helpers. It is very hard for us. > But we will try to implement the libata driver as needed. > > This patch set is intended to be merged to 2.6.20. > If you have any comment, please write to me. Care to post libata version (even if it's not complete)? Let's work something out. -- tejun