Re: [PATCH 5/7] scsi: mac_scsi: Fix pseudo DMA implementation, take 2

From: Finn Thain
Date: Mon Jun 03 2019 - 20:09:28 EST


On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> Hi Finn,
>
> On 3/06/19 7:40 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
> >
> > > There are several other drivers that contain pieces of assembler code.
> > >
> > Does any driver contain assembler code for multiple architectures? I was
> > trying to avoid that -- though admittedly I don't yet have actual code for
> > the PDMA implementation for mac_scsi for Nubus PowerMacs.
> >
> I've seen that once, for one of the ESP drivers that were supported on both
> m68k and ppc (APUS, PPC upgrade to Amiga computers). But that driver was
> removed long ago (after 2.6?).
>
> In that case, the assembly file did reside in drivers/scsi/. That still
> appears to be current practice (see drivers/scsi/arm/acornscsi-io.S).
>

The presence of that file would be an argument for adding
drivers/scsi/m68k/. This seems to be begging the question.

Since there's no clear policy, I'll combine the two files and avoid the
question for now.

--

> Cheers,
>
> ??? Michael
>
>
>