Re: [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed May 13 2009 - 06:39:46 EST


On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Brad Boyer wrote:
> If I'm reading the m68k code correctly, SUN3 is the one that doesn't have
> DMA. It is implemented on any m68k with a standard Motorola MMU. It might
> be possible to get the DMA code working on a sun3, but I doubt they ever
> have IDE hardware.

Yes, that's right, I misread the Kconfig logic.

In m68nommu, there are also Dragonball and MC68360 that are supported
but don't support the DMA API right now. Is that a real limitation, or
could those potentially have ATA ports?

Arnd <><
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