On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 17:34:57 -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > On 11/16/2010 04:19 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > > > Is this hardware PowerPC specific? > > On the driver source i found this on the header: > > > > "SL82C105/Winbond 553 IDE driver" > > > > Please advise. > > > > This controller is not PowerPC specific. It can be run by traditional > IDE driver or by modern libata pata driver. PowerPC kernel is compiled > with the traditional IDE driver (sl82c105 module). Other kernel flavors > use modern libata pata driver (pata_sl82c105). These two modules won't This is not true, AFAICT. No architecture has CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND set. Both powerpc and armel/iop32x have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105=m. > be used together, so a kernel flavor is compiled with either traditional > IDE, or libata driver, but not both. > > I'm not quite sure why is PowerPC kernel not compiled with the modern > libpata driver in Squeeze. At some point in the future all traditional > IDE drivers will be purged out, and pata_sl82c105 will appear in the > PowerPC flavor, too. > Cheers, Julien
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