Re: reference code for non-PCI libata complaint SATA for ARM boards.

[Deven Balani <devenbalani@gmail.com>]

Hi Jeff

In your previous mail you've mentioned that:

>An out-of-tree driver for a non-PCI embedded board exists, and works
>100%.  Use of struct device and dma_xxx() means it is bus-agnostic.
>That's how the whole system was designed to work -- and work, it does.

Can I just have a patch or link to the said out-of-tree code?

Thanks,
Deven


On 10/25/05, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Maw, 2005-10-25 at 17:41 +0530, Deven Balani wrote:
> >
> >>Hi All!
> >>
> >>I am currently writing a low-level driver for non-PCI SATA controller
> >>in ARM platform.which uses libata-core.c for linux-2.4.25. Can any one
> >>tell me any reference code available under linux.
> >
> >
> > At the moment its a bit hard to do a non PCI driver because the core
> > code assumes that there is a device structure (or pci_dev structure) for
> > everything. Fixing that is a two line change for 2.6 (probably similar
> > for 2.4) but Jeff Garzik rejected it.
>
> In 2.6.x, libata needs no fixes to support non-PCI devices.
>
> An out-of-tree driver for a non-PCI embedded board exists, and works
> 100%.  Use of struct device and dma_xxx() means it is bus-agnostic.
> That's how the whole system was designed to work -- and work, it does.
>
> None of this is true in 2.4.x, of course...
>
>        Jeff
>
>
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