Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix Maple PATA IRQ assignment.

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:44:15 +0100

> I'm not sure you can switch it to native mode in sw... worth double
> checking though. All boards based on 8111 on powerpc have this problem,
> I think. What of the js20 and js21 with IBM firmware ?

At least with SLOF, we use native mode.

> Or does it have
> the ide strapped to native mode ?

It's not a strapping, it's a purely software thing -- see the PCIIDE
specification.

Lots of controllers get the interrupt thing wrong though -- but
AMD8111 isn't one of those.

Segher