Re: More questions on PCMCIA internals with focus on MIPS....

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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:19:47AM -0700, David Hinds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:02:29PM -0400, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> > >
> > >Compact flash cards emulate IDE devices and are not memory mapped.
> > >All cards have the same resource requirements (just space for a few IO
> > >registers).  So, the 64 MB issue is a red herring.  Do any compact
> > >flash cards work?
> > >
> > Yes, an 8MB card works, just nothing larger. I am baffled on this one. I
> > wonder if some IDE probing was fixed in newer kernels than 2.4.20.
>=20
> Can you plug them into an x86 laptop with the same kernel version?

Steven, did you already mention which kernel version you are using?

In 2.4.17, there was a bug in powerpc specific code in the probing
code, which caused it to crash. Maybe you should look at the mips specific
ide code.

Greetings,
Oliver=20

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