From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932453AbVHKU4W (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932466AbVHKU4W (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:22 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:51880 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932452AbVHKU4U (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:20 -0400 Message-ID: <42FBBB6F.1030306@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:15 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64 References: <200508111424.43150.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <42FBB6C5.2070404@pobox.com> <200508111445.41428.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200508111445.41428.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 2:36 pm, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> >>>IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke >>>around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs >>>on HP ia64 systems. >>> >>>Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas >>> >>>Index: work-vga/drivers/ide/Kconfig >>>=================================================================== >>>--- work-vga.orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2005-08-10 14:57:47.000000000 -0600 >>>+++ work-vga/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2005-08-10 14:58:02.000000000 -0600 >>>@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ >>> >>> config IDE_GENERIC >>> tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support" >>>+ depends on !IA64 >> >>hmmmmmmmmm. Are you POSITIVE that the legacy IDE ports are never enabled? >> >>In modern Intel chipsets, this still occurs with e.g. combined mode. > > > I don't know about combined mode. If the legacy IDE ports are > enabled, shouldn't they be described via ACPI, and hence usable > via the ide_pnp - PNPACPI - ACPI path? No idea... that's more for platform IA64 people to answer :/ Jeff