From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8219B6EF7 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:30:26 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add cmd64x IDE driver to default pmac32 config From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: lawrence rust In-Reply-To: <1278569907.1411.19.camel@gagarin> References: <1278181316.3232.45.camel@gagarin> <1278565221.28659.74.camel@pasglop> <1278569907.1411.19.camel@gagarin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:30:20 +1000 Message-ID: <1278570620.28659.79.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 08:18 +0200, lawrence rust wrote: > > 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. Sure it does nowadays: drivers/ata/pata_macio.c :-) I merged that upstream in december last year, so it didn't make 2.6.32 which your distro probably uses, but it is in .33 and later. > A minor correction to my previous post, the first version of Ubuntu to > suffer from this problem was 9.10. Cheers, Ben.