From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mundt Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:20:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] SH/Dreamcast - add support for GD-Rom device Message-Id: <20071227222015.GA26382@linux-sh.org> List-Id: References: <1198774339.6170.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1198774339.6170.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adrian McMenamin Cc: Jens Axboe , LKML , linux-sh On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:52:19PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > This patch adds support for the CD-Rom drive on the SEGA Dreamcast. > > The SEGA Dreamcast has a built in CD-Rom drive, electrically similar > to an ATA-3 drive, but implementing a proprietary packet interface - > the so-called Sega Packet Interface (SPI)- and also supporting a > proprietary format of disk - the Giga Disk Rom, with a 1GB capacity. > The drive is know as the "GD-Rom drive". > > This patch partially implements the SPI and also supports reading GD > Rom disks. Unlike previous GD Rom drivers (which were never in the > mainline), this driver implements DMA and not PIO for reads. It is a > new driver, not a modified version of previous drivers. > > This is the fifth iteration of this patch - which should work with > both 2.6-24-rc5 and Paul Mundt's 2.6.25 queue. > > Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin > Looks fine to me. Thanks for cleaning it up, Adrian.