Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [git patches] libata updates | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:20:20 +0000 |
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On Llu, 2006-03-20 at 20:12 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > In my [no doubt warped] brain, I equate the SFF-8038 interface to "PCI > IDE BMDMA", and from there, view most hardware as a subset of PCI IDE > BMDMA. It might not do DMA, might not be PCI, might not do irqs, but > most PATA hardware seems able to be driven by a "bmdma driver". Thus, > the name :)
Most of that file is ST-506 type register interfaces, only a tiny bit is SFF PCI IDE with DMA.
Expect some patches soon. I've got my tree merged against the git tree now, just needs some testing.
Alan
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