From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: PATAPI via libata promise 20275 (was: RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:53:34 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <58cb370e041021115367c80c55@mail.gmail.com> References: <4176883D.7070905@pobox.com> <200410211704.i9LH4jMR008268@falcon30.maxeymade.com> Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:41150 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270817AbUJUSxh (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:53:37 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so82109rnk for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:53:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200410211704.i9LH4jMR008268@falcon30.maxeymade.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Maxey Cc: Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , SCSI Mailing List , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Alan Cox , Albert CC Lee ATAPI is working just fine for me (ata_piix) in both PIO/DMA and thanks to Jeff all my ATAPI work is now in -linus tree. :) Just enable ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI in . On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:04:45 -0500, Doug Maxey wrote: > Continuing down a somewhat related path, what is the outlook for PATAPI > via libata? > > There is a high level of interest to have hotplug controllers for ppc64, and > the primary (exclusive at this point) application is to drive PATAPI optical. > > I know you have indicated that you have some WIP to get there. I would like > to offer any help to reach that goal. > > Would you point me to any code available? > > ++doug