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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
	Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] at91_ide driver
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:05:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E1B5E.2010106@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114135832.7718055f@hskinnemoen-d830>

Hello.

Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:

>>* Why not platform driver
>>Generic pata/ide_platform driver will not work with AT91 as we need to 
>>do special things before access Task File and Data Register (functions 
>>set_8bit_mode() and set_16bit_mode()). Also extra things needs to be
>>done when changing PIO mode.

> Why not use libata?

    Why libata? You absolutely need the larger code footprint with the added 
"bonus" of SCSI disk emulation? :-)

> There's already a pata_at32 driver there which
> should be usable on at91 with perhaps a few minor changes.

    Well, if there's already close driver, it changes the matter...

MBR, Sergei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 12:45 [RFC][PATCH] at91_ide driver Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-14 12:58 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2009-01-14 13:21   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-14 17:05   ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2009-01-22 11:19   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-14 13:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-14 14:35   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-14 15:14     ` Alan Cox
2009-01-16 13:32   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-16 15:03     ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-16 15:34       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-16 16:13         ` Alan Cox
2009-01-17 20:08           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-17 20:20             ` Alan Cox
2009-01-18 10:58             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-18 15:29               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 11:51         ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-19 15:20           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-16 16:58     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-17 16:45       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 22:50         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-27 15:31           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-19 11:14       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-19 12:52         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-16 17:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-19 11:20   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-30  9:05   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-02-01 17:13     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-02-02 12:35       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-20 11:07 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-20 14:49   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-20 15:33     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-21 10:33   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-22  9:44     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 10:15       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-22 11:12   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-22 12:06     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 12:16       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 12:24         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 12:57           ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-22 13:38             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 13:14       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-22 13:48         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 14:13           ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-27 15:46           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-29 14:48             ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-01-29 15:22               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-22 14:39       ` Stanislaw Gruszka

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