On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 22:30 +0900, TOMARI Hisanobu wrote:
Thanks for helpful advices.
This patch adds an option to drivers/ide/Kconfig and adds
some lines to drivers/ide/pmac.c . Now the driver checks
if the model is prefixed with PowerBook and the entire hack
can be toggled in the Kconfig.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:40:29 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz bzoln...@gmail.com wrote:
Moreover the underlying issue is non-PMAC specific and asks for generic
resolution, please see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12734#c13
for previous discussion.
In the very least
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 22:47 +0900, TOMARI Hisanobu wrote:
I thought the short-40pin assumption would cause no problem
considering all models beginning with PowerBook5 are laptops.
Do you mean an option to toggle this hack on/off should be present
in Kconfig?
Actually, it makes -some- amount
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 22:47 +0900, TOMARI Hisanobu wrote:
I thought the short-40pin assumption would cause no problem
considering all models beginning with PowerBook5 are laptops.
Do you mean an option to toggle this hack
Thanks for helpful advices.
This patch adds an option to drivers/ide/Kconfig and adds
some lines to drivers/ide/pmac.c . Now the driver checks
if the model is prefixed with PowerBook and the entire hack
can be toggled in the Kconfig.
Again, the patch is against linux 2.6.28.8.
Best regards,
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:30:01PM +0900, TOMARI Hisanobu wrote:
Thanks for helpful advices.
This patch adds an option to drivers/ide/Kconfig and adds
some lines to drivers/ide/pmac.c .
I think it would be better to make it a kernel command line option
instead of Kconfig knob.
The reason is:
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:41 +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
The other option is to enable BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_SHORTCABLE by default,
but I'm not sure if it's safe thing to do (most probably not).
It should be allright for powerbooks. If the firmware says 80 pin cable,
then it probably is, and in
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:06 +0900, TOMARI Hisanobu wrote:
Hello,
I'm using an OCZ PATA SSD on Apple PowerBook5,4 computer.
The IDE drive fails to recognize 80-conductor cable that
connects the drive to motherboard to fall back to UDMA33.
This patch fixes this behavior by assuming that the
I thought the short-40pin assumption would cause no problem
considering all models beginning with PowerBook5 are laptops.
Do you mean an option to toggle this hack on/off should be present
in Kconfig?
Thanks,
TOMARI Hisanobu
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:58:17 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hello,
I'm using an OCZ PATA SSD on Apple PowerBook5,4 computer.
The IDE drive fails to recognize 80-conductor cable that
connects the drive to motherboard to fall back to UDMA33.
This patch fixes this behavior by assuming that the cable is
short-40pin when the model string matches PowerBook5
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