Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:04:31 +0300 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface. |
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Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
>> OTOH, CF support via self-contained driver is certainly a waste of code >> since IDE core and (libata) are here to drive the CF devices as well. >> What we need is a "normal" IDE or libata (at your option) driver. >> > > A libata driver would be nice and probably easiest to do as you don't > have to pretend to be close to old style taskfile IDE for a PC. >
AFAIU you don't need to pretend that with IDE as well now.
> I am not convinced there is no case for a 'dumb' small CF driver, but if > so the chipset code and the core code need to be separated as the other > requests I see for this are different embedded boxes wanting to keep > codesize down. >
Yeah, that might be worth considering...
> Alan >
WBR, Sergei
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