From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:19:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6546254b267f6d7df93d8df27c6dcfb4@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070801005640.327226db@the-village.bc.nu>
>> The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA.
>> Or that's what I was told -- I think there's some historic
>> revisionism involved, too.
>
> ATA is the interface and standards for the ANSI standards based disk
> attachment. IDE "Integrated Drive Electronics" is a marketing name used
> to cover all sorts of ST412 compatible-ish early interfaces that moved
> the brains onto the disk. IDE doesn't really mean much but "brains on
> disk", ATA is a real standard.
Thanks for refreshing my memory.
We will have to support both names in OF device tree nodes, since
both names are used in many existing device trees. For new nodes
with no precedent, like this "mmio-ide", let's require the more
correct "ata" name.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-25 16:53 [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 16:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 17:06 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 17:54 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:01 ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 18:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:39 ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:30 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 16:24 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-25 18:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:46 ` Scott Wood
2007-07-26 17:21 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-26 17:45 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-31 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-06 17:19 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-08-01 13:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 17:12 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 17:29 ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Alan Cox
2007-07-26 19:28 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-25 17:59 ` Kumar Gala
2007-07-25 19:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:05 ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-01 12:39 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-06 17:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-25 19:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 19:48 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:54 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 20:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 20:09 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 20:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-26 19:41 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-26 19:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 20:13 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-26 20:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-26 19:28 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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