Re: New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow)

[Jeff Garzik]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > I'm going to treat IDE as pure legacy, rather than as competition
> > with the PATA drivers which is what people whould be moving over to.
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> What impact does that on Linux and its growing popularity in arm
> platforms?  I had assumed that most arm platforms were long term users
> of drivers/ide, but I have no facts to back that up.

libata already has several ARM drivers and does work on that platform in 
general.  A great many platforms are handled by the generic 
pata_platform driver.

There are a handful of IDE drivers not yet ported over to libata, all 
!x86 drivers; maybe there's an odd ARM platform or two in there, I 
haven't checked recently.

If there's a problem or missing functionality, just speak up...

	Jeff




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