Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices

From: Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 18:06:49 EST


On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Russell King wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > > I think that ide should get its own bus, as a child of the ide controller.
> > > I haven't looked at ide yet at all. But, on most modern systems, the ide
> > > controller is a function of the southbridge, so ide devices should go
> > > under that. Like what the usb stuff does now...
> >
> > What about, say, a Promise PCI IDE card? You really need to reference
> > the parent PCI device when the is one.
>
> LOL, how about ones that are quad-channel with a DEC-Bridge to slip the
> local BUSS?
>
> Cheers,

or an i960rp and 3 promise 20276's, I've got two of those...

joelja
 
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> Andre Hedrick
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