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RE: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)



On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 Ballabio_Dario@emc.com wrote:
> Unfortunately the EATA PIO protocol just works for 16 bits transfers,
> so inw is the only option. 
> le16_to_cpu(inw()) should give the expected result for both BE and LE.
> Since the detection routine checks for both "EATA" and "ATAE" signatures,
> all should be fine if immediately after the test
> if (info.sign == EATA_SIG_LE)
> is dropped.

I see.

> I'll add a new boot option which skips ISA and EISA probing  in order
> to make the detection more flexible across architectures.

Perhaps you can just protect it by #ifdef CONFIG_ISA and #ifdef CONFIG_EISA?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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