linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:58:22 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Tim Ellis <tim@...dg.com>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata_sil680


> Yes.
> 
> Alan loves to complain about lack of MMIO flush, but in practice this is 
> rarely the source of problems such as the one you describe.
> 
> But if its broken its broken, and we need to revert.  Any luck getting 
> benh access to the device?
> 

Especially since reverting it will break a whole bunch of cell blades,
which wouldn't be nice (those cannot do PIO and have that controller).

In the meantime, we might "workaround" with a hack to only enable MMIO
on those cell
blades, something like:

#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
	if (machine_is(cell))
		mmio = 1;
#endif

That might get us out of the regression until we find the proper
solution ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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