On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:29:54PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
>  > It's been some time that I noticed pciide.o is getting larger and
>  > larger. I'm planning splitting it up in different drivers (e.g.:
>  > piixide* at pci?
>  > viade* at pci?
>  > aceride* at pci?
>  > etc ...
>  > and a catch-all
>  > pciide* at pci?
> 
> I think:
> 
> 	piixide
> 	amdide
> 	viaide
> 	cmdide
> 	cyide (cypress/contaq)
> 	siside
> 	aceride
> 	pdcide (promise)
> 	hptide
> 	acardide
> 	wbide (symphony/winbond)
> 
> They would carry the "pci_ide" attribute, to get the common code.  Their
> match routines would return e.g. 10 to indicate a high-priority match.

Yes

> 
> Then:
> 
> 	pciide
> 
> ..which would carry the "pci_ide" attribute to get the common code,
> and would contain no DMA support, and would return a match of 1.

pciide should have basic DMA support (rely on how the BIOS set things
up), enabled with the 0x0001 flag, as it is now.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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