Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide: PATA driver for Celleb

From: Tejun Heo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:07:16 +0900

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