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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 44 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index eed6d8e..8753203 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -122,24 +122,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA If unsure, say N. -config BLK_DEV_HD_IDE - bool "Use old disk-only driver on primary interface" - depends on (X86 || SH_MPC1211) - ---help--- - There are two drivers for MFM/RLL/IDE disks. Most people use just - the new enhanced driver by itself. This option however installs the - old hard disk driver to control the primary IDE/disk interface in - the system, leaving the new enhanced IDE driver to take care of only - the 2nd/3rd/4th IDE interfaces. Doing this will prevent you from - having an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM or tape drive connected to the primary - IDE interface. Choosing this option may be useful for older systems - which have MFM/RLL/ESDI controller+drives at the primary port - address (0x1f0), along with IDE drives at the secondary/3rd/4th port - addresses. - - Normally, just say N here; you will then use the new driver for all - 4 interfaces. - config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK tristate "Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support" ---help--- @@ -325,6 +307,7 @@ comment "IDE chipset support/bugfixes" config IDE_GENERIC tristate "generic/default IDE chipset support" + depends on ALPHA || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS || PPC32 help If unsure, say N. @@ -416,12 +399,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD This can improve the usability of some boot managers such as lilo when booting from a drive on an off-board controller. - If you say Y here, and you actually want to reverse the device scan - order as explained above, you also need to issue the kernel command - line option "ide=reverse". (Try "man bootparam" or see the - documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to - pass options to the kernel at boot time.) - Note that, if you do this, the order of the hd* devices will be rearranged which may require modification of fstab and other files. @@ -615,8 +592,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_HPT366 reference to device 0x80. The other solution is to say Y to "Boot off-board chipsets first support" (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD) unless your mother board has the chipset natively mounted. Regardless one - should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO or include - "ide=reverse" in LILO's append-line. + should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO. This driver requires dynamic tuning of the chipset during the ide-probe at boot. It is reported to support DVD II drives, by the @@ -1049,7 +1025,7 @@ config IDE_EXT_DIRECT endchoice # no isa -> no vlb -if ISA +if ISA && (ALPHA || X86 || MIPS) comment "Other IDE chipsets support" comment "Note: most of these also require special kernel boot parameters" @@ -1060,8 +1036,8 @@ config BLK_DEV_4DRIVES Certain older chipsets, including the Tekram 690CD, use a single set of I/O ports at 0x1f0 to control up to four drives, instead of the customary two drives per port. Support for this can be enabled at - runtime using the "ide0=four" kernel boot parameter if you say Y - here. + runtime using the "ide-4drives.probe" kernel boot parameter if you + say Y here. config BLK_DEV_ALI14XX tristate "ALI M14xx support" @@ -1114,14 +1090,10 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDMA def_bool BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF || BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC || \ BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_ICS || BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_MDMA2_DBDMA -config IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT - def_bool ALPHA || (ARM && !ARCH_L7200) || BLACKFIN || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS || PARISC || PPC || (SUPERH64 && BLK_DEV_IDEPCI) || SPARC - endif config BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY bool "Old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver" - depends on BLK_DEV_IDE=n help There are two drivers for MFM/RLL/IDE hard disks. Most people use the newer enhanced driver, but this old one is still around for two @@ -1133,12 +1105,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY for systems with only older MFM/RLL/ESDI drives. Choosing the old driver can save 13 KB or so of kernel memory. + If you want to use this driver together with the new one you have + to use "hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" kernel parameters to prevent the new + driver from probing the primary interface. + If you are unsure, then just choose the Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL driver instead of this one. For more detailed information, read the Disk-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. config BLK_DEV_HD - def_bool BLK_DEV_HD_IDE || BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY + def_bool BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY endif # IDE |
