David, Should there not be a call to the 8xx init function between #ifdef CONFIG_IDE_EXT_DIRECT / #endif in driver/ide/ide.c ? There are a lot such init calls there
Jaap-Jan On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 19:00, DavidHo at nanometrics.ca wrote: > The EXT_DIRECT item is already there in the configuration menu. I thought > it has been fully implemented in that version, until I saw the functions > are not being called in platform_init. > > Base on your knowledge, which kernel version has this mode (MPC8xx IDE) > fully working? > > And do you know the work involved in porting the support to 2.4.18? I am > gauging which is the easier route moving all the changes I have already > made to 2.4.2x or porting the changes to 2.4.18. > > David > > > > > > I'm using a variant of the 2.4.18 kernel from timesys. > > > > The kernel is compiled with those settings. (in your email) > > > > I had to add a call to m8xx_ide_init in m8xx-setup.c at the end of > > platform_init. > > > > I can only find these defines in ide-m8xx.c. I am thinking there must be > > more to it than the one file. > > Hmm. 2.4.18 is pretty old. I don't know if there's support for MPC8xx IDE! > > CONFIG_IDE_EXT_DIRECT was introduced long (!) after > CONFIG_IDE_8xx_PCCARD and CONFIG_IDE_8xx_DIRECT. > > Did you add the code for IDE_EXT_DIRECT yourself? > > Steven > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/