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diff --git a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt index ae4f4f43c25c..18c02df2f78f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt @@ -71,29 +71,6 @@ This driver automatically probes for most IDE interfaces (including all PCI ones), for the drives/geometries attached to those interfaces, and for the IRQ lines being used by the interfaces (normally 14, 15 for ide0/ide1). -For special cases, interfaces may be specified using kernel "command line" -options. For example, - - ide3=0x168,0x36e,10 /* ioports 0x168-0x16f,0x36e, irq 10 */ - -Normally the irq number need not be specified, as ide.c will probe for it: - - ide3=0x168,0x36e /* ioports 0x168-0x16f,0x36e */ - -The standard port, and irq values are these: - - ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 - ide1=0x170,0x376,15 - ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11 - ide3=0x168,0x36e,10 - -Note that the first parameter reserves 8 contiguous ioports, whereas the -second value denotes a single ioport. If in doubt, do a 'cat /proc/ioports'. - -In all probability the device uses these ports and IRQs if it is attached -to the appropriate ide channel. Pass the parameter for the correct ide -channel to the kernel, as explained above. - Any number of interfaces may share a single IRQ if necessary, at a slight performance penalty, whether on separate cards or a single VLB card. The IDE driver automatically detects and handles this. However, this may @@ -199,7 +176,7 @@ When ide.c is used as a module, you can pass command line parameters to the driver using the "options=" keyword to insmod, while replacing any ',' with ';'. For example: - insmod ide.o options="ide0=serialize ide1=serialize ide2=0x1e8;0x3ee;11" + insmod ide.o options="hda=nodma hdb=nodma" ================================================================================ @@ -240,14 +217,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line As for VLB, it is safest to not specify it. Bigger values are safer than smaller ones. - "idex=base" : probe for an interface at the addr specified, - where "base" is usually 0x1f0 or 0x170 - and "ctl" is assumed to be "base"+0x206 - - "idex=base,ctl" : specify both base and ctl - - "idex=base,ctl,irq" : specify base, ctl, and irq number - "idex=serialize" : do not overlap operations on idex. Please note that you will have to specify this option for both the respective primary and secondary channel |