Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (geert@linux-m68k.org)
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:24:33 +0200 (MEST)

On 14 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 10:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > Indeed. Ataris and Q40/Q60s have byteswapped IDE busses, but they expect
> > on-disk data to be that way, for compatibility with e.g. TOS.
>
> Some designers need to be shot...
>
> What about optionally making fix_drive_id a platoform hook
> (like it was, but with a reasonable default) to avoid clobbering
> the common code with those #ifdefs ?

Yes, I already suggested that in my IDE patch for 2.4.x. But I was in a hurry,
since I wanted to get m68k IDE working in 2.4.21.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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