From: lawrence rust <lawrence@softsystem.co.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add cmd64x IDE driver to default pmac32 config
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:18:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278569907.1411.19.camel@gagarin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278565221.28659.74.camel@pasglop>
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:00 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 20:21 +0200, lawrence rust wrote:
> > The Blue/White Apple PowerMac G3 and early G4's use a cmd64x compatible
> > IDE disk controller. E.g. lspci shows...
> >
> > 01:01.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev 07)
> >
> > Unfortunately the default pmac32 configuration does not include this
> > driver and so PowerMac G3's can't load a root filesystem. This is an
> > issue on a least Ubuntu since version 9.04, which uses the default
> > config as a starting point.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lawrence Rust <lawrence at softsystem.co.uk>
>
> Shouldn't we just switch the whole thing to libata now anyways ?
Sure. it would be preferable but unfortunately the PowerMac on-board IDE
controller (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC), used for the DVD drive on B/W
G3's, doesn't have a PATA equivalent. So it's pragmatic (until the IDE
code is removed) to use the IDE cmd64x driver to minimise kernel code
size.
A minor correction to my previous post, the first version of Ubuntu to
suffer from this problem was 9.10.
-- Lawrence
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
> > diff -uprN a/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig 2010-05-16 23:17:36.000000000 +0200
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig 2010-07-03 20:11:10.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set
> > -# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
> > +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X=y
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
--
-- Lawrence Rust
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-03 18:21 [PATCH] Add cmd64x IDE driver to default pmac32 config lawrence rust
2010-07-08 5:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-08 6:18 ` lawrence rust [this message]
2010-07-08 6:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-08 9:01 ` lawrence rust
2010-07-08 10:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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