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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:06:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
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To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
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Subject: Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > > I think that ide should get its own bus, as a child of the ide controller. 
> > > I haven't looked at ide yet at all. But, on most modern systems, the ide 
> > > controller is a function of the southbridge, so ide devices should go 
> > > under that. Like what the usb stuff does now...
> > 
> > What about, say, a Promise PCI IDE card?  You really need to reference
> > the parent PCI device when the is one.
> 
> LOL, how about ones that are quad-channel with a DEC-Bridge to slip the
> local BUSS?
> 
> Cheers,

or an i960rp and 3 promise 20276's, I've got two of those...

joelja
 
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> Andre Hedrick
> Linux Disk Certification Project                Linux ATA Development
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