Pegasos 2 support patch ...

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Adrian Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 08:59, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:05:01PM +0100, Adrian Cox wrote:
> > > > What I'm looking for is a tidy way of achieving the same result on a
> > > > platform where the boot firmware did not put the via ide controller at
> > > > the legacy addresses.
> > >
> > > Ok, the main point would be to fins the tidy way for doing this.
> >
> > Cfr. the code in longtrail_pcibios_fixup() and briq_pcibios_fixup() for the
> > SL82C105 IDE interface, which is left in legacy mode by Open Firmware?
>
> Which tree are those boards in?

LongTrail support has been in the main tree since several years. But
longtrail_pcibios_fixup() may still be missing even in the PPC tree (it doesn't
seem to be in plain 2.6.7 yet). Patches floated on the list.

> There's a similar fixup in pplus.c in 2.6.7, but I don't like the way
> IDE works on PowerPC currently. The ppc_ide_md structure and the fixups
> are being used to fool the core ide code into behaving in a specific
> way. The core ide code makes no guarantees that these tricks will
> continue to work, and in my case the necessary tricks changed between
> 2.4 and 2.6. The only platform specific knowledge required for the Via
> 686 is the mapping between the internal i8259 interrupt number and the
> linux interrupt number.

And the internal i8259 interrupt number is always the same as the Linux
interrupt number to support legacy code, right?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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