Re: [PATCH] remove dead drivers/ide/ppc/swarm.c

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 09:28:54 EST


On Tue, 4 May 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> > Simply a result of the way the IDE bus is hooked up to the generic bus of
> > the Sibyte chip. I'd have to research details if you're interested ...
>
> The basic question is whether disk used on SiByte can be read i.e. on x86.
> If not than we may have serious problems with some special commands with
> current implementation (similar problem as on Atari Q40/Q60).

I can check the GPIO attachment with 2.4 (which should behave the same
way here). I don't have a PCI IDE board.

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