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SubjectRe: CSB5 IDE does not fully support native mode??
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On Thursday 26 May 2005 8:24 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> In order to keep the legacy world from falling to bits IDE and VGA have
> some ugly hacks in the PCI spec.
>
> In legacy mode an IDE device appears at the "old" standard IDE addresses
> and uses an external IRQ pin wired to the ISA IRQ lines (14 or 15). In
> native mode it behaves like a PCI device, honouring the PCI bars and
> using the PCI INT lines.

This has been niggling in my mind for a while -- in legacy mode,
the device should use IRQ 14/15. But I think we still call
pci_enable_device(), which sets up IRQ routing according to
the usual PCI rules. Should we be using pci_enable_device()
at all in legacy mode?
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