Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

[Jeff Garzik]

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2005 2:36 pm, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >
> > > IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke
> > > around in I/O port space.  Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs
> > > on HP ia64 systems.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Index: work-vga/drivers/ide/Kconfig
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- work-vga.orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig	2005-08-10 14:57:47.000000000 -0600
> > > +++ work-vga/drivers/ide/Kconfig	2005-08-10 14:58:02.000000000 -0600
> > > @@ -276,6 +276,7 @@
> > >
> > > config IDE_GENERIC
> > > 	tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support"
> > > +	depends on !IA64
> >
> > hmmmmmmmmm.  Are you POSITIVE that the legacy IDE ports are never enabled?
> >
> > In modern Intel chipsets, this still occurs with e.g. combined mode.
>
>
> I don't know about combined mode.  If the legacy IDE ports are
> enabled, shouldn't they be described via ACPI, and hence usable
> via the ide_pnp - PNPACPI - ACPI path?

No idea...  that's more for platform IA64 people to answer :/

	Jeff



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