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 11:01:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278579667.2850.5.camel@gagarin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278570620.28659.79.camel@pasglop>
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:30 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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.
OK I see that - good news. However, for the moment I believe that it's
safer to stay with IDE. It's the smallest of changes but the wholesale
move to libata could well break numerous system install scripts - e.g.
for yaboot.
-- Lawrence
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 9:01 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
2010-07-08 6:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-08 9:01 ` lawrence rust [this message]
2010-07-08 10:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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