From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ATA driver in U-Boot
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:21:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041008152159.K14378@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41668573.16343.3D098D@localhost>; from vwren@timension.com on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:17:55PM -0800
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:17:55PM -0800, Victor Wren wrote:
> Given that the kernel is being loaded out of flash (with all drivers compiled
> in), and that the only reference to the IDE drive that U-Boot really knows
> about is a commandline parameter passed to the kernel, would it cause any
> conspicuous problems to remove ATA support from U-Boot, or does the kernel
> depend on hardware information that U-Boot is providing (I notice there's a
> "U-Boot" section in the kernel config)?
Victor,
It's been a little while since I looked at it, but I don't believe there
is any reason why U-Boot needs to have the IDE/ATA stuff built-in unless
U-Boot is going to use it. I'm pretty sure it doesn't communicate w/
the kernel about it (i.e. IDE) at all. Of course, YMMV... :-)
John
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John W. Linville
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-08 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-08 20:17 [U-Boot-Users] ATA driver in U-Boot Victor Wren
2004-10-08 19:21 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2004-10-08 20:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
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