Re: [PATCH 1/2] [ide] mmio ide support

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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This adds support for MMIO IDE device like CompactFlash 
in TrueIDE mode.

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Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <redacted> 
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <redacted>

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Hmm, are we still adding new IDE drivers? Do you also have a

    Yes, why not?

The last time someone (I think Akira Iguchi) wanted to add
a new powerpc specific IDE driver, that was rejected based
on the argument that drivers/ide/ is going away soon. Most
current distros have already moved over to using libata
exclusively.

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about to add the electra_ide.c driver in 2.6.23, I guess there
should really be _one_ driver that is able to handle all
of_device based ATA hosts.

    One driver to rule them all. :-)
    That may be not so simple as it seems...

It's certainly not easy to support all ATA chips that
have special capabilities and bugs, but the electra and the
mpc8349-itx both seem to support only the most basic ATA
PIO mode anyway, which does not require much special
handling beyond finding the right mmio addresses.

	Arnd <><