Ulrich,
 The ide-patch i took is from ftp://ftp.buici.com/pub/arm/patch-linux-2.6.11/
Is that good enough?

Alan was referring to PIO mode in that thread but this implementation doesnt 
have IO mode and also no IDE support. It only has memory mode and I will 
have to support it as memory. How do I do that?

Another question: If I rework the board so that the wires coming to MEMR and MEMW
are rewired to IOR and IOW respectively, does it work in TrueIDE mode? Just a thought!


Thanks,
Kiran

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org
[mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org]On Behalf Of Ulrich Eckhardt
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:14 AM
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: CF custom implementation


Kiran Thota wrote:

I am working on a MIPS-based processor SoC which has a custom CF
implementation over Local Bus. The CF doesnt support IO mode, interrupts, 
32-bit support.
It has limited register support [no interface registers to reset the CF]. I
am using 2.6.10 from linux-mips. I have already written a PCMCIA/CF socket
socket for the same.
The goal is to use the CF cards as memoy devices. Advise me on the path to
take:

PCMCIA/CF ->CS/DS -> IDE [I found a patch to make IDE work in polled mode]

Could you tell me where you found that patch?

I am currently using Lexar and Hitachi Compact Flash cards.

CF is a standard, so this shouldn't matter.

The CIS can be read and when the Linux boots up and I invoke cardmgr
[v3.2.8], it sees the device as ATA/IDE Fixed Disk [Func = 4 (Fixed Disk) ]
Is there a way to force it to come up in memory only mode? Please suggest.

I'm using a CF card attached to the PCMCIA interface of an Alchemy Au1100. 
Since my board only has a CF slot, I'm not using the whole PCMCIA stack at 
all - CONFIG_PCMCIA=no and no cardmgr. All I do is detect the card, parse the 
CIS and register the CF card with the IDE/ATA system of the kernel, just like 
Alan Cox suggested in the recent thread "ATA devices attached to arbitary 
busses". One good reason for me doing so is that I need to mount the root 
filesystem from the CF but the PCMCIA stack requires user-space helpers.

Uli