On Aug 23, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Ben Warren wrote: > Hello, > > I have a custom board where we've hung a CompactFlash on the local bus > of an MPC8349 processor, intending to use it in 'True IDE' mode. The > closest thing I've found in the kernel tree is > drivers/ide/ppc/ide-m8xx.c, although it's *very* possible I'm not > looking in the right place. > > I believe my chip's local bus is similar to the 8xx, so making this > driver work with my hardware doesn't seem like that big a deal. I > fully > expect to have to monkey with UPM timings among other things. On the > other hand, this seems like something other people would have done, > maybe with one of the other PQ families like 82xx or 85xx. > > Does anyone have a patch, suggestions or flames they can throw my way?
I know I posted a patch for cf-ide.c to lkml some time ago, this was to do a CF in true ide mode using the 83xx localbus. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113877891224982&w=2 We did some UPM setup in u-boot to use two CS on Localbus for this. - kumar
