[parisc-linux] [PATCH] asm-parisc/ide.h cleanup (there are no standard ports)

Grant Grundler grundler at parisc-linux.org
Sat Mar 27 16:49:26 MST 2004


On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 12:24:57AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Well, I know but I have other cleanups incremental to this one. :-)

Ah ok - go for it.

> It is also NOP for #ifdef CONFIG_PCI (that is the reason for this patch BTW)
> since both ide_default_io_base() and ide_default_irq() are defined as '0'.

Ok - I didn't look any deeper.

> > Hypothetically someone could add an IDE card
> > to a parisc EISA bus (eg 725), not define PCI, and then run the IDE
> > in PIO mode since DMA is still kaputt behind our EISA IOMMU.
> 
> That would require (at least) passing "ide=base[,ctl,[irq]]" kernel parameter.

I was told offline my hypothetical example is in fact hypothetical.
parisc won't build with IDE unless PCI is defined. I haven't tried.

thanks,
grant


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