On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:56 +0000, Alan wrote: > > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
