[parisc-linux] Re: YA pb with PCI IDE (my merge 2.4.21-pre1)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:04:26PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:06, jsoe0708@tiscali.be wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> > 
> > Worried about ext3 pb, I try to merge parisc kernel 2.4.20-pa14 with 2.4.21-pre1.
> > This merge seems to works fine on a b180l+ (without pci devices).
> > But still boot twice (??) and crash on a b2k with an ide cdrom.
> 
> I've sent the PCI fixup patch to linux-kernel. Depending upon how the
> PA-RISC system interfaces to the IDE controller you may also need
> platform specific fixups or to drop the chip into Native mode.

You mean the "IDE but no disks" patch:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.2/0105.html ?
If so, that might be relevant, but have davem's concerns about this IDE
code being broken on big-endian machines been addressed?

-- 
"It's not Hollywood.  War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk