Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:53:33 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] m68k/mac: Replace macide driver with generic platform driver |
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Hi Michael,
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:55 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27/04/21 3:47 pm, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Michael Schmitz wrote: > >> On 26/04/21 7:37 pm, Finn Thain wrote: > >>> Was macide the only IDE driver in Debian/m68k kernels without a libata > >>> alternative? If so, this patch would allow you to finally drop > >>> CONFIG_IDE. > >>> > >> There's still q40ide.c (ISA IDE interface, byte-swapped, so would need > >> treatment similar to Falcon IDE). Hasn't been updated to a platform > >> device yet. > >> > > AIUI, q40 support is not included in Debian/m68k kernel builds. > I see. > > I wonder whether q40 could re-use the pata_falcon driver . I suppose > > I'm pretty sure it could, but there is no reason why it would have to be > crippled in that way. Interrupts should work perfectly fine with IDE on > Q40. > > There is another reason why using the same module binary for both might > fail - the awkward address translation code in io_mm.h. Not certain at > all whether we can even have Q40 and Atari in the same kernel binary...
That's supposed to work, else our multi_defconfig is broken.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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