Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > This is a libata driver for the "macio" IDE controller used on most Apple > PowerMac and PowerBooks. It's a libata equivalent of drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c > > It supports all the features of its predecessor, including mediabay hotplug > and suspend/resume. It should also support module load/unload. > > The timing calculations have been simplified to use pre-calculated tables > compared to drivers/ide/pmac.c and it uses the new mediabay interface > provided by a previous patch. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Only lightly tested so far, this is for review, NOT for merge. > > I would like to merge it eventually via the powerpc tree since there's a > few dependent patches, though I would need the libata "fix" for > bmdma_stop to go in first, unless I carry it as well with appropriate > acks. > > I have addressed some of the comments from the previous version (almost a > year ago I think). I have kept the single function for the PIO and DMA > timings due to the one bit overlap between the fields in the HW register > on the shasta chipset. It seems to work fine. Thanks for reviving pata_macio. Does the new version work with yaboot? (the previous one didn't) /Mikael -- 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
