Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: new multi-core architecture for Linux

[Chris Metcalf]

On 5/28/2010 1:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 28 May 2010, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>   
>> I looked at where inb() and friends are used, and although we can get
>> close to not requiring them for tile, it's not quite there, and will
>> need some further discussions on the various lists to clean up enough
>> for our purposes.  There are three problems that surface when I try to
>> remove the inb family:
>>
>> 1. The ide-io-std.c file sets up the default_tp_ops, which we override
>> in our IDE driver, but we still have to build this file, and it contains
>> calls to inb, etc.
>>     
> It's only needed in the IDE layer though and will go away once you
> move to an ATA driver, right?
>   

That sounds plausible, though I haven't looked at what's involved with
this yet.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com


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