On Saturday 13 February 2010 06:04:03 Alexander Graf wrote:
> Exactly, that's the issue to fix here, make DBDMA work with CD-ROM so we
> can get rid of the cmd64x controller.
Speaking of which - in my PPC64 enabling series I use MacIO for all 4 IDE
devices. At least with recent kernels, Linux just detects DMA being broken
on the CD-ROM and doesn't use it.
Could you point me at a copy of that patch? That sounds like it would be a
decent solution for me, I'm happy to test it if it helps push it upstream.