From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFT] major libata update
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:48:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <446BB64E.1060509@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605171632340.10823@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In particular, I have this pretty strong memory that we tried to do
> something like this a long time ago, and it caused problems at least
> with the legacy ISA/ATA interrupts (irq 14/15).
>
> On the other hand, my memory is pretty damn bad at times, and besides, I
> hope that that "hardcoded" case just above it is the one that takes care
> of the old ATA interrupts. This is one of those times when the only
> guaranteed right thing to do would be to be bug-for-bug compatible with
> whatever crud MS-Win does..
Many BIOS ACPI tables from years ago simply _assumed_ that you have
hardcoded irq 14/15, even... Their irq descriptors for 14/15 would be
absent or completely non-functional.
Or maybe its the $pirq table I'm recalling. One of the two, anyway.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 17:00 [RFT] major libata update Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 17:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-15 18:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 19:06 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-05-15 20:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 19:33 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-15 22:52 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 18:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-15 18:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 17:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 18:29 ` Tomasz Torcz
2006-05-15 18:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:32 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 0:04 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-16 2:15 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 19:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:02 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:13 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 23:50 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 23:47 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:30 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-15 23:36 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 23:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 0:08 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 3:36 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 3:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 4:33 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 14:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 15:25 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-05-17 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 23:48 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-05-18 1:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-17 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-16 15:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 3:55 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-16 4:37 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-17 2:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-17 4:49 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-17 5:14 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 6:35 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-18 11:24 ` Albert Lee
2006-05-18 11:33 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-19 10:37 ` Albert Lee
2006-05-19 11:03 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-18 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-19 1:14 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-19 2:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-19 2:16 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-22 7:22 ` Jeff Garzik
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2006-05-16 5:33 ` Robert Hancock
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2006-05-17 7:35 Matthieu CASTET
2006-05-18 0:36 Brown, Len
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