From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John W. Linville Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:21:59 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ATA driver in U-Boot In-Reply-To: <41668573.16343.3D098D@localhost>; from vwren@timension.com on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:17:55PM -0800 References: <41668573.16343.3D098D@localhost> Message-ID: <20041008152159.K14378@tuxdriver.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -- John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com