Re: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 14:22, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Hmm, does such hardware already exist?  I don't think it's reasonable to
> make some code available to a user in a configuration that will never make
> use of it.  E.g. a plain TURBOchannel box (or one with no I/O bus) won't
> ever see a native ATA device (SCSI to ATA bridges obviously don't count). 
> I'll check if the code builds at all. 

Sure. There are embedded devices with onboard IDE controller logic. I
don't know about in mipsdom but certainly elsewhere.

I'm not aware of turdochannel IDE but there is a homebrew QBUS IDE
project