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l : linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 26 February 2008 • 8:58AM -0500

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata_sil680
by Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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> Yes.
>
> Alan loves to complain about lack of MMIO flush, but in practice this is
> rarely the source of problems such as the one you describe.
>
> But if its broken its broken, and we need to revert.  Any luck getting
> benh access to the device?
>

Especially since reverting it will break a whole bunch of cell blades,
which wouldn't be nice (those cannot do PIO and have that controller).

In the meantime, we might "workaround" with a hack to only enable MMIO
on those cell
blades, something like:

#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
if (machine_is(cell))
mmio = 1;
#endif

That might get us out of the regression until we find the proper
solution ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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