> I fear that the hardest part is yet to come, when we integrate the
> driver for the the PS3 (currently called gelic_net) into spidernet.
> The trouble is that the hardware is sufficiently similar to share
> all the high-level mechanisms like the DMA data structures and
> descriptor chains, but the low-level mechanisms are hidden in the
> hypervisor on the PS3. Someone will have to invest a significant
> amount of time coordinating this so we don't break celleb and qs20
> in the process.

That to me implies they should be different drivers using a common
libata-something file. The PPC mac drivers likewise are currently mashed
into one in drivers/ide but really want splitting for libata with some
kind of libata-pmac owning the shared stuff

Alan
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