PCMCIA Help - AU1000 Alchemy Dev Board

PCMCIA Help - AU1000 Alchemy Dev Board

[craigslist]

Hi all,

I'm working on a project with linux 2.6.10 on the AMD au1000 alchemy  
board. I'm attempting to get the pcmcia socket working with a  
wireless network card using the madwifi drivers. I have the 2.6.10  
kernel built for the au1000 dev board and the filesystem, etc.  
However, I'm having difficulties getting the PCMCIA socket to work  
correctly.

At this point, i'm just working with the au1x00_ss module trying to  
get it to recognize a card insert into socket 0 of the au1000 dev  
board. Through debugging, I've noticed that the board_status register  
at 0XAE000004, bit 4, is not changing whether a card is inserted or  
not. It's my understanding that the first step to getting this  
working is detecting the presence of a card, however, I am apparently  
missing some detail as that register value never changes.

Does anyone have experience with this? Has anyone gotten the pcmcia  
sockets working on the au1000 in 2.6?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

Stefan Willmert

Re: PCMCIA Help - AU1000 Alchemy Dev Board

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

On Monday 10 July 2006 19:45, craigslist wrote:
> I'm working on a project with linux 2.6.10 on the AMD au1000 alchemy
> board. 

I think there are two boards, called Db1000 and Pb1000. It is the processor 
that is called Au1000. You first need to make sure which one you have.

> I'm attempting to get the pcmcia socket working with a 
> wireless network card using the madwifi drivers. I have the 2.6.10
> kernel built for the au1000 dev board and the filesystem, etc.
> However, I'm having difficulties getting the PCMCIA socket to work
> correctly.
>
> At this point, i'm just working with the au1x00_ss module trying to
> get it to recognize a card insert into socket 0 of the au1000 dev
> board. Through debugging, I've noticed that the board_status register
> at 0XAE000004, bit 4, is not changing whether a card is inserted or
> not. It's my understanding that the first step to getting this
> working is detecting the presence of a card, however, I am apparently
> missing some detail as that register value never changes.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this? Has anyone gotten the pcmcia
> sockets working on the au1000 in 2.6?

I haven't worked with the Au1000 but the Au1100 on a custom board, and from 
there I have the following steps in mind:

1. The system-busses are used for multiple purposes, so the first thing to do 
is to configure the right bus for PCMCIA access (processor-specific).
2. You need to switch on power to the PCMCIA slot. There is no standard way to 
do that, as it depends on the board. On my board I had to read the layout to 
find the transistors used to switch the voltage, it was via some GPIO pins. 
These then also have to be properly configured (use a voltmeter to check 
power is present). Also mind that these are sometimes low-active or inverted 
along the lines - this caused confusion for me quite some times.
You should then also be able to detect that the card is present and such 
things. I don't remember, but I think some of those did not go through GPIO 
so these should have fixed connections valid for all boards.
3. You need to map the PCMCIA memory ranges into virtual memory. This is again 
only processor-specific, see the documentation.

Note that only the processor-specific part should be done by the au1x00_ss 
driver, though I wouldn't be surprised to find some board-specific parts 
there, too. It's not always easy to cleanly separate things.

Good luck!

Uli


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