Trying a Promise Ultra/66 on powerpc

Tom Rini trini at disparity.net
Mon Aug 9 06:55:01 EST 1999


On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Michel Lanners wrote:

> This fact was already catered for with the definition of outb/inb and
> friends, which get an offset added to the port. Unfortunately, the
> PowerMac IDE code undoes this and replaces it with a different
> mechanism, which in essence removes the offset. Grrr..
>
> I've solved the problem by adding the right offset directly to the
> io-port values as found in the kernel's PCI structures. I think this
> needs more serious rework, though. Paul, are you the author of the
> PowerMac IDE stuff? So we can work this out... 

Would this be one of the things solved/cleaned up by seperating ide-pmac.c
and the CONFIG option for it into generic enable IDE stuff and a driver
for the builtin IDE on some machines?  Last I tried, I needed to enable
both cmd646 and ide-pmac on myy blue&white (trying to do this is on my
todo list, someplace.. :))

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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