From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:33:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:64803 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23895326AbYKXWdp (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:33:45 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.150.0.9]) by imap.sh.mvista.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A75E3EC9; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:33:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <492B2BBE.4080403@ru.mvista.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:33:34 +0300 From: Sergei Shtylyov User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Daney Cc: Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: New libata driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface. References: <49261BE5.2010406@caviumnetworks.com> <49280FC5.3040608@ru.mvista.com> <20081122145204.52270dbe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <492B1153.5080001@caviumnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <492B1153.5080001@caviumnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 21407 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hello. David Daney wrote: >>> But if you're saying that there is only DMA completion inetrrupt, >>> you *cannot* completely emulate SFF-8038i BMDMA since its interrupt >>> status is the (delayed) IDE INTRQ status. I suggest that you move >>> away from the emulation -- Alan has said it's possible. >> >> I don't see whats wrong with treating it that way if it keeps the amount >> of code needed down. >> > > For exactly that reason, I intend to continue to try to emulate it. "You do or you do not. There is no try." :-D > David Daney MBR, Sergei