Re: Adding flag to disable native mode on aceride

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:18:22PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> chris%dokein.co.uk@localhost wrote:
> 
> > I think the best thing to do is to force the chipset back to compat mode
> > with a flag.
> > 
> > To this end I've taken the next spare flag for PCIIDE, and used it to
> > indicate that the aceride should be using compat mode.
> > 
> > This then allows control from the config file, so in cats config files
> > we can workaround the BIOS issue.
> > 
> > Attached is a diff (including man page update) to use a flag to do this.
> >  The change to the config file is to just tag a flags value on the end:
> > aceride*        at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0004   # Acer Lab IDE
> > controllers
> > 
> > Does this look ok?  I'd like to check in the chage in then next couple
> > of days.
> 
> If the flag is cats specific, it's better to use proplib(3)
> to specify such quirks rather than config flags,
> as iyonix/autoconf.c, sgimips/autoconf.c etc. do
> for their onboard PCI devices.

Yes, this looks better to me as well

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