[PATCH] add PATA host controller support for Cirrus Logic's EP93xx CPUs

Ryan Mallon ryan at bluewatersys.com
Thu Nov 26 14:46:01 EST 2009


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Based on the older IDE host driver by Joao Ramos and review comments
> for it from Sergei Shtylyov.  Not yet tested with the real hardware.

> 
> Sidenote:
> 
> I have neither the hardware nor much personal interest in adding support
> for it so I did it mainly cause:
> 
> - IDE host driver wasn't merged due to policy change and I hate seeing fair
>   amount of review work from me & Sergei going into waste. :)
> 
> - I was curious about some claims I've been hearing recently so I decided to
>   verify them in practice (porting the driver to libata was relatively easy
>   but unfortunately in the process it gained almost 50% in the LOC count..).
> 
> so if somebody would like to take over this patch feel free to do it.

Thanks for doing this. I'll see if I can dig out a hard-drive and give
this a test. I had some comments, but I will fix them up myself if I get
round to testing this.

~Ryan

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