Matt Sealey wrote: > So we actually have to fix up some platform support for it? That's not very > nice.
Well, the hardware isn't very nice, is it? :-) > We can't make the controller TRULY legacy since there is not any good way > of mapping the IDE/BMDMA registers into the lower kilobyte or so of > memory - obviously PPC has no "io address space", it's all memory mapped, > so the lower kilobyte of "IO ports" is really the CPU zero page. It's not > a good idea to be poking around just there and we never intended that to work. So, the legacy ioport addresses aren't fixed. It can be determined by the previously-said arch macros. Or are you saying that mmio is required? > Is it possible to perhaps replace ata_pci_init_one with a custom > function which handles this (in pata_via.c) quirky behaviour and > #ifdef it out with a Kconfig variable? Yeah, sure. I was gonna do it once the native PCI BARs + legacy IRQ hack I posted to the bugzilla bug is verified to work. There's a pending cleanup to ata_pci_init_once() and friends which will make the job easier. Can you test the patch and try to determine why it doesn't work? Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
