Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 May 2002 18:59:04 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 55 |
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2002, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > BTW.> It should indeed take both in to account as far as I can > > > see.(Despite the fact that I could affort an ATARI I hardly > > > can find one...) > > > > That's not necessary, but I'm only afraid that functionality gets lost, > > which isn't needed on the latest hardware. > > > > bye, Roman > > we should fix atari byte-swapped ide in ata_read() like we do in > atapi_read() then ide_fix_driveid() will make rest... > (or I am missing something?)
Here you can mix two different issues: - Ataris have a byte-swapped IDE interface. Hence we need support to swap data for interoperability (not only on Atari: imagine an Atari disk connected to a PC) - IDE is little endian, so the drive identification is little endian too. To make things more complex, not only multibyte objects, but also text strings are byteswapped.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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