Hello Tejun On 02/01/2018, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Darren. > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 09:11:05PM +0000, Darren Stevens wrote: >> The AMD SB600 southbridge has an PATA IDE interface, but the >> secondary port has no physical connections, so is disabled in >> the PCI header which makes it appear as a legacy port. > > How sure are you about the secondary port never being used? Given the > age of the device and that this has been like this the whole time, I'd > prefer if the workaround were more specific - ie. mark it dummy only > on the specific machines that are known to be broken. That said, if > we know with certainty that the secondary port is never used, sure. I'm reasonably sure. >From '46157-sb600-bdg-pub-3.00' Page 27 section 6.1.2 Note: Secondary IDE channel should always be disabled for there is no pin out for secondary IDE. However I was trying to keep patches for the X1000 inside arch/powerpc rather than all over the linux tree. If you are OK with a specific patch I can resubmit. Thanks Darren -- 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
