Well, at least one answer. There have been several people asking about using an ATA flash card with a RPX-lite. The kernel has some routines that connect the 8xx PCMCIA controller to the kernel's IDE driver. Two changes were necessary to make that work. One change is timing related specific to a SanDisk. I tested the patch on both a RPX-lite CW and a CLLF BW. Here are the steps I took to make this work
apply patch ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/unsupported/embedded-planet/ select _IDE and _IDEDISK config options make dep make zImage Make sure you insert the flash card before you boot linux. the IDE driver probes for a disk at boot time. As for the pcmcia-cs questions... Magnus provided a patch to pcmcia-cs to run on 8xx and Jo-Ellen provided a kernel patch to the MV 2.2.13 kernel. Since Mark and Jo-Ellen wrote thier own pcmcia module (for thier super cool wireless project), they didn't run into the problems using the ide,ethernet pcmcia modules. I know that the above mentioned 8xx pcmcia/ide kernel routines conflict with the pcmcia-cs ide module. Some work in the kernel will be necessary to resolve that conflict. As for the ethernet problems, I tried several different 3COM models with strange results. I haven't looked into that any further. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
