DavidHo at nanometrics.ca wrote: > My application needs a compactflash and a 1.8" disk drive connected to the > MPC852T. Since the compact flash has already taken up the only PCMCIA > slot, the disk drive is directly attached to the PPC bus so I need to > enable EXT_DIRECT for the disk drive. Ok.
> I haven't been able to make linux call the ide_init_hwif function. I > looked at how ide.c works and it looks like it enables IDE interfaces on > the PCI first (ide_default_io_base returns non-zero). I haven't yet been > able to find out where it call my function. > > Would you be able to tell me how you got this mode working. I do if you tell me which kernel version you tried. I guess you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MPC8xx_IDE=y # CONFIG_IDE_8xx_PCCARD is not set # CONFIG_IDE_8xx_DIRECT is not set CONFIG_IDE_EXT_DIRECT=y in your .config file? Steven ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/