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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] mmio ide support for mpc8349-itx target
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From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson)
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On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:49:00PM +0400, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> 
> This updates relevant platform code
> (freescale mpc8349itx target) to make the CompactFlash
> work in TrueIDE mode.

Shouldn't you be writing a PCMCIA driver instead for the CF, so it
handles other devices as well? Then you get storage "for free", as
well as hotplug, etc.

It's not hard:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?person=124&id=12044


-Olof