[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/6] drivers: block: Remove the ata_piix driver

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 05:00:33 CEST 2015


Hi Simon,

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On 15 May 2015 at 19:33, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This driver was originally added to support the native IDE mode for
>> Intel chipset, however it has some bugs like not supporting ATAPI
>> devices, endianness issue, or even broken build when CONFIG_LAB48.
>> Given no board is using this driver as of today, rather than fixing
>> all these issues we just remove it from the source tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Correct typo of 'endianness' in the commit message
>>
>>  drivers/block/Makefile   |   1 -
>>  drivers/block/ata_piix.c | 717 -----------------------------------------------
>>  drivers/block/ata_piix.h |  71 -----
>>  3 files changed, 789 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/block/ata_piix.c
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/block/ata_piix.h
>>
>
> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Given we are preparing next release on u-boot-x86/master, could this
patch be applied now?

Regards,
Bin


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