Yes, I use this driver. I have an old PC XT 8088, and the fact that it was in the kernel tree SAVED MY DATA.
Of course I couldn't boot Linux on that old machine. But I removed the disk and the controller card and put it into a Pentium MMX. The ROM on the card has to be removed or it will kill the boot by trying to patchextends the BIOS. Then you have to configure out the IRQ and DMA manually in the BIOS menu. But then you pass the controller type to the driver with xd=3 and it *WORKS*, well after the first two patches in this series. I proceeded to do some rough cleanups to get it more maintainable. Linus Walleij (9): block: xd: introduce a delay before every outb operation block: xd: fix up request handler loop block: xd: raise timeouts block: xd: some whitespace and #if 0 removal block: xd: avoid using typedefs block: xd: avoid some forward declarations block: xd: merge header file into driver block: xd: remove custom DEBUG print system block: xd: replace all printks with pr_* drivers/block/xd.c | 1202 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/block/xd.h | 134 ------ 2 files changed, 686 insertions(+), 650 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/block/xd.h -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
