From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Jan Damborsky <jan.damborsky@devcom.cz>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: connecting IDE directly to MPC8xx
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:09:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030221150926.38C1AC6E0D@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:58:44 +0100." <3E563EA4.7070207@devcom.cz>
Dear Jan,
in message <3E563EA4.7070207@devcom.cz> you wrote:
>
> I am using PPCBoot on my board with MPC823E.
> I am lucky and I ported Linux on this board. All
Congrats!
> works well but I don't know, how to configure
> kernel 2_4_3 form ElinOS v2.0 to work with IDE hard disk connected
> directly to MPC823 bus (utilizing PCMCIA bus signals
> in way PPCBoot does it - in PPCBoot my IDE disk works well).
>
> In kernel 2_4_3 from ElinOS v2.0 I use this options:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MPC8xx_IDE=y
> CONFIG_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
> CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTIMODE=y
> CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
> CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
These options look OK to me; for another example please see
http://www.denx.de/doc/TQM8xxL/advanced-topics.html#FLASH-DISKS
> But It doesn't work at all. It crashes in do_probe() function,
> when accessing bad memory region. I have mapped all
> PCMCIA regions correctly.
> Is any straightforward way to configure kernel to work with
> this IDE connection ?
Probably the ElinOS kernel does not support this properly.
Feel free to try the kernel from our CVS server which has been used
with such configurations in several projects. See
http://www.denx.de/re/linux.html
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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2003-02-21 14:58 connecting IDE directly to MPC8xx Jan Damborsky
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