Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/23/21 1:10 AM, Stan Johnson wrote: > On 3/22/21 5:37 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> On Mär 22 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: >> >>> My issue with the retirement of legacy IDE isn't technical. Two of the >>> systems that I use are a PowerBook Wallstreet and a PowerBook 3400c. >>> Both of these laptops

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-22 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: > My issue with the retirement of legacy IDE isn't technical. Two of the > systems that I use are a PowerBook Wallstreet and a PowerBook 3400c. > Both of these laptops have internal IDE drives, an external SCSI port, > and require BootX to boot into Linu

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Mär 22 2021, Stan Johnson wrote: > My issue with the retirement of legacy IDE isn't technical. Two of the > systems that I use are a PowerBook Wallstreet and a PowerBook 3400c. > Both of these laptops have internal IDE drives, an external SCSI port, > and require BootX to boot into Linux. BootX

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Adrian, On 22/03/21 8:27 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Michael! On 3/22/21 3:31 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: note that the libata driver for Falcon does not utilize interrupts due to the interaction between IDE, SCSI and floppy hardware, the latter two also making use of the ST-DMA

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael! On 3/22/21 3:31 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: > note that the libata driver for Falcon does not utilize interrupts due to the > interaction between IDE, SCSI and floppy hardware, the latter two also making > use of the ST-DMA chip which cannot be transparently checked for DMA > completio

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Miro, note that the libata driver for Falcon does not utilize interrupts due to the interaction between IDE, SCSI and floppy hardware, the latter two also making use of the ST-DMA chip which cannot be transparently checked for DMA completion. Instead, the libata driver polls for IDE comma

Re: Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/21/21 9:49 AM, Miro Kropáček wrote: > I guess this is related also to the Atari platform: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210318045706.200458-1-...@lst.de/ ? No, it's not. > Or has Falcon/Milan/Hades been using libata already? Yes, I have pushed for the most important drivers to be convert

Legacy IDE to be removed

2021-03-21 Thread Miro Kropáček
Hi, I guess this is related also to the Atari platform: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210318045706.200458-1-...@lst.de/ ? Or has Falcon/Milan/Hades been using libata already? Cheers, Miro