From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932831Ab0E1R2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:28:17 -0400 Received: from king.tilera.com ([72.1.168.226]:7030 "EHLO king.tilera.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757376Ab0E1R2P (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 13:28:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4BFFFD2B.8050402@tilera.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:28:11 -0400 From: Chris Metcalf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: new multi-core architecture for Linux References: <201005200543.o4K5hFRF006079@farm-0002.internal.tilera.com> <201005252345.15685.arnd@arndb.de> <4BFFF330.4080509@tilera.com> <201005281916.12999.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201005281916.12999.arnd@arndb.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 May 2010 17:28:13.0911 (UTC) FILETIME=[26D87670:01CAFE8B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/28/2010 1:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 28 May 2010, Chris Metcalf wrote: > >> I looked at where inb() and friends are used, and although we can get >> close to not requiring them for tile, it's not quite there, and will >> need some further discussions on the various lists to clean up enough >> for our purposes. There are three problems that surface when I try to >> remove the inb family: >> >> 1. The ide-io-std.c file sets up the default_tp_ops, which we override >> in our IDE driver, but we still have to build this file, and it contains >> calls to inb, etc. >> > It's only needed in the IDE layer though and will go away once you > move to an ATA driver, right? > That sounds plausible, though I haven't looked at what's involved with this yet. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com