insw/outsw in ide.h

David Monro davidm at amberdata.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 6 17:58:58 EST 2000


> Is there any PPC platform that needs to use a byte-swapping insw/outsw in
> the IDE driver?  (I can't see why any platform would, but you never
> know...)

Yes - the IBM 850 does. Otherwise the firmware doesn't understand the
partition table and the CD drive doesn't work.

Cheers,

	David

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