On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 11:08 -0700, vb wrote:
> SCSI support gets added as soon as CONFIG_ATA gets enabled in
> drivers/ata/Kconfig - is this intentional/necessary?
Yes. It just appears as a SCSI host; that's how libata works. Your disk
will appear as a SCSI disk (/dev/sda).
> These are config flags added 'automagically' as soon as ATA is enabled
> does it make sense?
>
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m
Yeah, that looks sane.
>
> Also where one can find definitions of the values included in the
> pata block of the OF tree - specifically for 'pio-mode' and 'reg' as
> in arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8349emitx.dts:
>
> pata@3,0 {
> compatible = "fsl,mpc8349emitx-pata", "ata-generic";
> reg = <0x3 0x0 0x10 0x3 0x20c 0x4>;
> reg-shift = <1>;
> pio-mode = <6>;
> interrupts = <23 0x8>;
> interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
> };
That question is probably best directed at the linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
list.
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