linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface

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Message-ID: <20070801005640.327226db@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:56:40 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Vitaly Bordug <vitb@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver
 for CF	interface

> The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA.
> Or that's what I was told -- I think there's some historic
> revisionism involved, too.

ATA is the interface and standards for the ANSI standards based disk
attachment. IDE "Integrated Drive Electronics" is a marketing name used
to cover all sorts of ST412 compatible-ish early interfaces that moved
the brains onto the disk. IDE doesn't really mean much but "brains on
disk", ATA is a real standard.
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