Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface

Scott Wood
2007-07-25T18:02:22Z

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:54:07PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Also, what mmio-ide in the compat properly means in the context of
> ide_platform which is able to handle both port and memory mapped IDE.

I/O-space is only valid in the context of PCI, ISA, or similar buses, and
the bus-specific reg format indicates whether it's mmio-space or
io-space.

> I think we must get rid with this crap, and since this IDE register
> mapping is pretty much board specific, call it something like
> "mpc8349emitx-ide" instead.

What is board specific about a set of standard IDE registers at a given
address? Do we need to make board-specific glue code for all of the
various ns16550-compatibles out there as well?

-Scott