Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 2010 13:28:11 -0400 | From | Chris Metcalf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: new multi-core architecture for Linux |
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On 5/28/2010 1:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 28 May 2010, Chris Metcalf wrote: > >> I looked at where inb() and friends are used, and although we can get >> close to not requiring them for tile, it's not quite there, and will >> need some further discussions on the various lists to clean up enough >> for our purposes. There are three problems that surface when I try to >> remove the inb family: >> >> 1. The ide-io-std.c file sets up the default_tp_ops, which we override >> in our IDE driver, but we still have to build this file, and it contains >> calls to inb, etc. >> > It's only needed in the IDE layer though and will go away once you > move to an ATA driver, right? >
That sounds plausible, though I haven't looked at what's involved with this yet.
-- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com
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