[parisc-linux] [PATCH] asm-parisc/ide.h cleanup (there are no
standard ports)
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
B.Zolnierkiewicz at elka.pw.edu.pl
Sat Mar 27 17:04:51 MST 2004
On Sunday 28 of March 2004 00:49, Grant Grundler wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I will push this to Linus.
Thanks,
Bartlomiej
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