PR649, was Re: PR469 IDE problem, was: Re: Any New 4.6.4 Issues

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Monday 19 September 2005 05:14 pm, Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> 
>>>I think specifying a special IDE configuration during the "configure"
>>>run is quite an elegant way to overcome this problem.
> 
> 
> If that means while configuring RTEMS proper, that is the wrong place to do 
> it.

These configure options are BSP specific so when the eventual split of
RTEMS into "RTEMS proper" and "BSP" occurs, these options should apply 
only to the portion compiled with the BSP portion.

I must admit to having not reviewed the patch so am just assuming it
modifies code in libbsp and libchip.

> Joel has stated multiple times that the eventual goal is to provide RTEMS 
> binaries that can be linked to applications, and it makes no sense at all to 
> have multiple binaries that differ only in which ATA devices are expected to 
> be present.

The binary goal is for code under cpukit.  I am glad people are thinking 
of this. :)

> The configuration should either be when the application is built, or at run 
> time based on initialization parameters passed to the ATA driver.
> 


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