On 11/16/2010 04:19 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > Is this hardware PowerPC specific? > On the driver source i found this on the header: > > "SL82C105/Winbond 553 IDE driver" > > Please advise. >
This controller is not PowerPC specific. It can be run by traditional IDE driver or by modern libata pata driver. PowerPC kernel is compiled with the traditional IDE driver (sl82c105 module). Other kernel flavors use modern libata pata driver (pata_sl82c105). These two modules won't be used together, so a kernel flavor is compiled with either traditional IDE, or libata driver, but not both. I'm not quite sure why is PowerPC kernel not compiled with the modern libpata driver in Squeeze. At some point in the future all traditional IDE drivers will be purged out, and pata_sl82c105 will appear in the PowerPC flavor, too. Milan
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