Re: Forcing IDE to work in PIO mode

[Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@mvista.com>]

Please point me to the 2.4.26 or 2.4.27 code that you are referring to

Thanks
Manish Lachwani

Muruga Ganapathy wrote:
> Manish, 
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> I am looking for the PCMCIA-IDE driver for the SWARM board in 2.6.x
> I did see this driver in 2.4.26/27 but not in 2.6.10.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on porting the PCMCIA-IDE driver from 2.4.27
> to 2.6.x?
>
> Regards
> G.Muruganandam
>
>
> > I had posted a patch to this mailing list a few days back. The patch 
> > applies cleanly to the current tree and is currently checked in: 
> > drivers/ide/mips/swarm.c
> > Using this patch, Broadcom SWARM IDE works well
> >
> > Thanks
> > Manish Lachwani
> >
> > Muruga Ganapathy wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Manish for the information.  
> > >
> > > BTW, do you have patch to make the swarm IDE work in 2.6.6-rc3 
> > >
> > > Regards 
> > > G.Muruganandam 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Muruga Ganapathy wrote: 
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,  
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I force the IDE to work in the PIO mode by including the  
> > > > > option like "hdb=noprobe" in the setup.c? 
> > > > >
> > > > > My kernel version is 2.6.6 
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks 
> > > > > G.Muruganandam 
> > > >
> > > > Hello ! 
> > > >
> > > > I would have thought "ide=nodma" at the command line would have 
> > > worked 
> > >
> > > > Thanks 
> > > > Manish Lachwani 
> > >
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