Re: What's needed for PMP support?

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Mark Lord wrote:
>> Heh... I never thought a PMP aware controller would use TF SRST, so what
>> you want to do is set pmp value in the register and calling
>> ata_std_softreset(), right?  I think the correct thing to do is to
>> separate out SRST sequence proper from ata_std_softreset() into, say,
>> ata_sff_SRST() and build custom softreset around it.  After all, the
>> problem here is the reset sequence not the SCR access.
> ..
> 
> Actually, I believe the problem *is* the (pmp) SCR access.
> The same issue will return again when trying to support hotplug, for
> example.

Can you elaborate a bit?

> Any SCR access will steal the active pmp on such hosts.
> 
> I think we really do need to snoop those, somehow.

Adding ->sata_pmp_scr_read/write should do but I wanna avoid that if
possible.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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