Re: 2.3.36-pre on SPARC

From: Marc Zyngier (Marc.Zyngier@bull.net)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 05:03:40 EST

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>>>>> "DK" == Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> writes:

DK> 1. ide-geometry is forced into the block device code unconditionally. That
DK> breaks all archs which don't know about IDE drives (and don't care: ever
DK> seen an Apollo Domain or an Mac-68k or an IBM S/390 with IDE drives? and
DK> sparc doesn't need it either, newer Ultra's have IDE but to my knowledge
DK> none of the older 32bit SPARCs).

Old Tadpole SparcBook-1 (which is a sun4m) have IDE disks...

Marc.

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