From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
bzolnier@gmail.com, elendil@planet.nl,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090622183218.15d340d5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906221921.21709.arnd@arndb.de>
> Actually, m68k, m32r and h8300 currently can't use libata at all
> for one reason or another, mostly missing support for dma-mapping.h
That wants fixing and your ifdef patches looked a route to beat it into
some kind of shape
> side, it should be possible to convert almost any non-PCI ATA
> chip to use drivers/ata/pata_platform.c or pata_of_platform.c.
The ioc4 and the ppc ones are a bit harder as they have custom DMA
descriptor tables and stuff. The rest I agree.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090621.141950.160759111.davem@davemloft.net>
[not found] ` <200906220034.22430.bzolnier@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20090621.155756.100422570.davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-21 23:13 ` David Miller
2009-06-21 23:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-21 23:52 ` New IDE maintainer David Miller
2009-06-22 0:53 ` New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow) Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-22 0:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-22 0:20 ` New IDE maintainer David Miller
2009-06-22 3:39 ` New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow) Greg Freemyer
2009-06-22 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-06-22 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-22 17:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-22 17:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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