Re: Please revert: PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources

Alan Cox
2007-12-10T23:15:23Z

> Forcing controllers into native mode tends to be something that really
> only works on -some- controllers. I'm happy to have a hack to try to do
> that on all of them on powermacs, because the range of controllers that
> might not be in native mode in the first place there is pretty small,
> and for CHRP briq, I do it for a specific known controller only.

I'm thinking of doing this solely if the platform has
CONFIG_ATA_NO_LEGACY set. In other words we'd only try this stunt on a
system we *know* cannot address the low PCI space ports.