From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Cc: Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Sven Luther <sl@bplan-gmbh.de>,
linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ata: Add support for the MPC52xx ATA controller using libata
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:41:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455E3A7E.3030807@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455E0907.8000009@246tNt.com>
Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Since the current libata doesn't really support overriding IO accessors,
> I'd keep it like
> that for now. Apparently some other architecture needs special IO stuff
> so we could see
> a way to hook io accessor soon, and then we can change it if we notice
> big problems.
Sure it does... there are no individual outb etc. hooks, but you can
override every available bitbang function. This is intentional, so that
arches have more power to control when and how a set of registers is
blasted to the hardware.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-17 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 22:12 [PATCH/RFC] ata: Add support for the MPC52xx ATA controller using libata Sylvain Munaut
2006-11-16 23:46 ` Alan
2006-11-17 19:12 ` Sylvain Munaut
2006-11-17 18:49 ` Jarno Manninen
2006-11-17 19:09 ` Sylvain Munaut
2006-11-17 22:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-11-17 23:21 ` Sylvain Munaut
2006-11-19 19:14 ` Nicolas DET
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