This is so well timed ...
I just begin to work on a project where I need to add IDE support to a
TS-7XXX board ..
Continue your good work!
Thank you
Etienne
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:39 -0700, Michael Schmidt wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I've been working lately on improving the IDE support for the ARM
> processor.
> The code only supported one IDE interface, which did not work out too
> well
> with the new daughter board we made with a compact flash slot on it.
> With
> the new code the TS-9600 IDE card also works on the ARM platform,
> provided
> you have the 16-bit bus option. A few changes were all that were
> required
> in a couple of header files. I've put the updated files on our ftp
> site:
>
> ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ide/
>
> There are two header files named "ide.h", so I renamed the one found
> in
> include/linux/ide.h to linux-ide.h, and kept the one from
> include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ide.h named ide.h. Both files specify
> their
> original location at the top of the file so hopefully there is no
> confusion
> as to where they go. The recompiled modules and kernel are also in
> this
> directory. I recommend only using the modules unless you have a good
> need
> to include the modules in the kernel (e.g. to boot from CF on the
> 7200)
> because there appears to be a problem with hot-swapping otherwise.
>
> I've also created a preliminary write-up on how everything works at:
> http://oz.embeddedarm.com/~michael/support/ide-doc.txt.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
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