On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 08:18 +0200, lawrence rust wrote: > > Sure. it would be preferable but unfortunately the PowerMac on-board IDE > controller (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC), used for the DVD drive on B/W > G3's, doesn't have a PATA equivalent. So it's pragmatic (until the IDE > code is removed) to use the IDE cmd64x driver to minimise kernel code > size.
Sure it does nowadays: drivers/ata/pata_macio.c :-) I merged that upstream in december last year, so it didn't make 2.6.32 which your distro probably uses, but it is in .33 and later. > A minor correction to my previous post, the first version of Ubuntu to > suffer from this problem was 9.10. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
