Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:56 +0000, Alan wrote:

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I fear that the hardest part is yet to come, when we integrate the
driver for the the PS3 (currently called gelic_net) into spidernet.
The trouble is that the hardware is sufficiently similar to share
all the high-level mechanisms like the DMA data structures and
descriptor chains, but the low-level mechanisms are hidden in the
hypervisor on the PS3. Someone will have to invest a significant
amount of time coordinating this so we don't break celleb and qs20
in the process.

That to me implies they should be different drivers using a common
libata-something file. The PPC mac drivers likewise are currently mashed
into one in drivers/ide but really want splitting for libata with some
kind of libata-pmac owning the shared stuff

Also note that for spidernet vs. gelic, I'm actually very tempted to
keep them as separate drivers.

Ben.