Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

Jeff Garzik
2005-08-11T20:56:22Z

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 <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
>>>
>>>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