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

David Hinds wrote:
> 
>>  3) The final item has to do with the same above configuration.
>>     It should be obvious that the size of my PCI memory space
>>     is only 64MB total in size. If I attempt to insert a compact
>>     flash card that is 64MB in size, the board will hang. I have
>>     not gone deep into the code yet, but should not the PCMCIA
>>     code recognize that it will be impossible to map the card
>>     into the memory space or is it being naughty and going outside
>>     the memory address space?
> 
> 
> 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.

-Steve



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