Re: Delkin Cardbus IDE, a.k.a. ASKA "Ninja" chipset

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:11:16 -0500
> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Mark Lord wrote:
>>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:37:07 -0500
>>>> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> delkin_cb is also missing from libata.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was going to port it over once, but no longer have a cardbus slot
>>>>> in either of my notebooks here.
>>>> Yes I looked at it but it didn't have any proper speed setting, so I
>>>> decided it wasn't actually worth doing.
>>> ..
>>>
>>> Yeah.  No docs whatsoever, but there's more than a few users
>>> of it out there.
>> ...
>>
>> Mmmm.. the NetBSD people seem to have detailed information on these chips!
>> There seems to be more than enough information in the NetBSD sources
>> to implement full timings support and full bus-master DMA support:
>>
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ic/ninjaata32var.h?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ic/ninjaata32reg.h?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ic/ninjaata32.c?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>>
>>
>> Anyone want to take this on?
> 
> I'll knock a driver out next week providing someone with hardware is
> willing to be test monkey.

I've got hardware here that you can have, if you want it.
It's just a cardbus CF adapter, and neither of my own notebooks have slots.

Email me privately with mailing address if you want it.

Cheers