From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates
Date: 14 Apr 2003 17:03:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050336224.25353.78.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0304141544130.28305-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>
On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 14:44, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 09:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Indeed. Ataris and Q40/Q60s have byteswapped IDE busses, but they expect
> > > on-disk data to be that way, for compatibility with e.g. TOS.
> >
> > That is a higher level problem. You need a byteswap mode for the loop device
> > it seems. Then you can read atari disks on any box..
>
> You're talking about a different problem.
>
> We want to read Atari disks on Ataris, too.
You can initrd a loop over ide root on the Atari. I can see reasons (performance)
you don't want to do that, and I'm quite happy for someone to split the mmio ops
for data/control to clean that up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-14 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-13 13:06 [PATCH] M68k IDE updates Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-13 14:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-13 23:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-04-14 8:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-14 9:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 9:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-14 12:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 12:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 13:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-14 16:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-15 4:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-15 8:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-15 9:23 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-15 9:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-14 12:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 12:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 19:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-14 22:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-04-15 8:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-21 16:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-22 14:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-22 13:55 Mudama, Eric
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0304221802570.16017-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>
2003-04-23 11:27 ` Richard Zidlicky
2003-04-23 11:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-23 20:19 ` John Bradford
2003-04-24 9:47 ` Richard Zidlicky
2003-04-24 11:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-24 13:14 ` Richard Zidlicky
2003-04-24 14:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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