Re: Isn't the IDE-Doubler machine independent?

[Nicolas Bruno BASTIEN <lakomok%free.fr@localhost>]

Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> Hi,
>
> yet another generic commend to what 
> on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Ilpo Ruotsalainen wrote:
>
>
> > Attached is a patch to add support for 'standard' IDE-doublers to
> > NetBSD-current. Testers (both with IDE-doubler hardware and without) are
> > very much wanted, especially people with A4000s.
>
> \begin[devil]{advocate}
>
> You will note that those IDE doublers (at least the one I know) are 
> machine independent - that is, they should work with any old-style IDE
> machine! Shouldn't that code be in sys/dev/ic/wdc.c ? ;-)
>
> \end{advocate}
>
> I guess it's ok to keep it confined to Amiga, unless until we find a way to
> run-time detect that eveil hack. Opinions?
>
> Regards,
>         -is

My opinion is that you guess well. Let's keep it confined to Amiga.
Most of other arch often have at least two IDE interfaces or can easily
get SCSI adapter. Amiga has only one IDE interface and it is not so easy
to have SCSI adapter (I am also thinking about BlizzardPPC SCSI that is still
supported) so IDE doubler, that is somehow a good thing, would be useful
on Amiga, but on other arch ? I don't think so.

I guess too that doing it as Amiga specific would be easier for NetBSD maintener 
than doing it as generic, wouldn't it ?

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Nicolas Bruno BASTIEN