Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 00:43, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Since __ide_mm_insw doesn't get told whether it is transferring normal
> sector data or drive ID data, it can't necessarily do the right thing
> in both situations.

That may be the right change to make.

> It's very possible that there are some PPC platforms for which IDE is
> borken right now - I strongly suspect this would be the case for the
> Tivo at least, and probably several other embedded PPC platforms.

For the older tivo that would be sad, for the newer tivo where they
digitally sign the binary and don't provide the signatures -- too bad
they are violating the license clarifications on the IDE code if they
use it.

Alan