RE: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller

[Warner, Bill]

Please take me off of this discussion thread.

Thank you.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Geert Uytterhoeven [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:17 AM
> To:	Andre Hedrick
> Cc:	Jeff Garzik; Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC); 'Padraig
> Brady'; 'Linux Kernel'; Warner, Bill (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
> Subject:	Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller
> 
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Look at 2.4.20-pre2-ac5.
> > 
> > I fixed that problem.
> 
> OK, thanks!
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > > > Attached is the ATA core...
> > > > 
> > > > Just to give a little bit more information about the previously
> attached 
> > > > code, it is merely a module that does two things:  (a) demonstrates 
> > > > proper [and sometimes faster-than-current-linus] ATA bus probing,
> and 
> > > > (b) demonstrates generic registration and initialization of ATA
> devices 
> > > > and channels.  All other tasks can be left to "personality" (a.k.a. 
> > > > class) drivers, such as 'disk', 'cdrom', 'floppy', ... types.
> > > 
> > > Looks nice (at first sight)!
> > > 
> > > But one limitation is that it always assumes the IDE ports are located
> in I/O
> > > space :-(
> > > What about architectures where IDE ports are located in MMIO space? Or
> worse,
> > > have some ports in I/O space (e.g. PCI IDE card) and some in MMIO
> space (e.g.
> > > SOC or mainboard IDE host interface)?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
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