Re: Incoming to hq.fsmlabs.com:/home/bk/linuxppc_2_3

[Paul M. <pa...@li...>]

Dan Malek writes:

> It won't work well for 8xx either, because we have the hack to
> allow a PCMCIA flash disk as an IDE device without using PCMCIA
> card services.  Why can't we make these ppc_md calls like other
> IDE things, which makes my hack much easier to do :-).  There are

They are already (well, they're indirect calls to members of
ppc_ide_md).  I will leave them like that, at least for now.  The only
thing I want to do is make the members of ppc_ide_md point directly to
check_region etc. or be NULL, rather than having little wrapper
functions.

Sound OK?

> also other 8xx systems with a memory mapped IDE on the processor
> bus where the check/request region doesn't make sense (in fact,
> these functions don't make sense on most embedded systems).

Check/request region doesn't make much sense whenever the IDE
registers are actually in PCI memory space (or the equivalent) rather
than I/O space.

Paul.

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