Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 14 Apr 2003 17:03:45 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 14:44, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On 14 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 09:39, 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. > > > > That is a higher level problem. You need a byteswap mode for the loop device > > it seems. Then you can read atari disks on any box.. > > You're talking about a different problem. > > We want to read Atari disks on Ataris, too.
You can initrd a loop over ide root on the Atari. I can see reasons (performance) you don't want to do that, and I'm quite happy for someone to split the mmio ops for data/control to clean that up.
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