From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail•com>
To: Akira Iguchi <akira2.iguchi@toshiba•co.jp>
Cc: linux-ide@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide: PATA driver for Celleb
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:07:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4562CFD4.6040702@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611210959.kAL9x8eH026223@toshiba.co.jp>
Akira Iguchi wrote:
> Dear everyone,
>
> This is the patch (based on 2.6.19-rc4) for PATA controller of
> Toshiba Cell reference set(Celleb). The reference set consists
> of Cell, 512MB memory, Super Companion Chip(SCC) and some
> peripherals such as HDD, GbE, etc. You can see brief explanation
> and picture of Cell reference set at following URLs.
>
> http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_09/pr2001.htm
> http://cell-industries.com/toshiba_announces.php
>
> We use a drivers/ide driver because its design is more suitable for
> SCC IDE controller than libata driver. Since SCC supports only 32bit
> read/write, we must override many callbacks of ata_port_operations
> by modifying generic helpers. Each time the libata common code is
> updated, we must update those modified helpers. It is very hard for us.
> But we will try to implement the libata driver as needed.
>
> This patch set is intended to be merged to 2.6.20.
> If you have any comment, please write to me.
Care to post libata version (even if it's not complete)? Let's work
something out.
--
tejun
next parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 10:07 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200611210959.kAL9x8eH026223@toshiba.co.jp>
2006-11-21 10:07 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-11-21 11:02 ` [PATCH] drivers/ide: PATA driver for Celleb Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-21 11:49 ` Alan
2006-11-21 10:01 Akira Iguchi
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