Re: ibook system bus speed

[Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>]

On 11 Mar 2005 at 09h03, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

Hi, 

> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> > idebus=xx
> 
> It's a crap message, forget it. The IDE layer tries to have it's own
> idea of the PCI bus speed in fact, which then can be used by some IDE
> drivers to calculate various timings. But the drivers for the pmac
> chipset doesn't need/use this value, which is crap in the first place.

I've seen this message debated more than once on ppc mailing-lists.
Maybe the message could be disabled on our archs?

-- 
Colin