Re: [PATCH] m68k/mac: Replace macide driver with generic platform driver

Michael Schmitz
2021-04-27T19:29:30Z

On 27/04/21 8:11 pm, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 27.04.2021 4:51, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
>>> Was macide the only IDE driver in Debian/m68k kernels without a libata
>>> alternative? If so, this patch would allow you to finally drop
>>> CONFIG_IDE.
>>>
>> There's still q40ide.c (ISA IDE interface, byte-swapped, so would
>> need treatment similar to Falcon IDE). Hasn't been updated to a
>> platform device yet.
>
>    ISA drivers shouldn't be "updated" to the platform drivers. But I
> don't see 'struct isa_driver' there either...

My bad - while the Q40 has ISA slots, IDE isn't connected to the ISA
bus. Got confused by the base address range matching what I remember
from ISA cards...

Cheers,

Michael