Manish, My previous mail was based on the sources from kernerl.org and the dmesg below. Thanks G.Muruganandam ======================================================= Linux version 2.4.27-sb1-swarm-bn (root@hattusa) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:34 swarm setup: M41T81 RTC detected. This kernel optimized for board runs with CFE Determined physical RAM map: memory: 003b0000 @ 00000000 (usable) memory: 0f254400 @ 00c36c00 (usable) memory: 00886c00 @ 003b0000 (reserved) hm, page 003b0000 reserved twice. hm, page 003b1000 reserved twice. Initial ramdisk at: 0x803b0000 (8940544 bytes) On node 0 totalpages: 65163 zone(0): 65163 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram console=duart0 initrd=886C00@803B0000 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 532.48 BogoMIPS Memory: 245068k/251920k available (2077k kernel code, 6860k reserved, 120k data) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Detected 2 available CPU(s) Starting CPU 1... Slave cpu booted successfully Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x2) All processors have done init_idle PCI: Skipping PCI probe. Bus is not initialized. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Dummy keyboard driver installed. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Generic MIPS RTC Driver v1.0 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize eth0: SiByte Ethernet at 0x10064000, address: 00-02-4C-FE-0D-D6 eth0: enabling TCP rcv checksum eth1: SiByte Ethernet at 0x10065000, address: 00-02-4C-FE-0D-D7 eth1: enabling TCP rcv checksum Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SiByte onboard IDE configured as device 0 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] sibyte-pcmcia: Looking up addr 0x10061130: 0x03ff (IO size) sibyte-pcmcia: Looking up addr 0x10061230: 0x1100 (IO Base Address) sibyte-pcmcia: Memory region 0x11000000 of size 0x04000000 requested. sibyte-pcmcia: Setting up "sb1250pc" procfs entry SiByte onboard PCMCIA-IDE configured as device 1 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) > 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>************************************************************* > >>>GDA Technologies, Inc. > >>>1010 Rincon Circle > >>>San Jose CA, 95131 > >>>Phone (408) 432-3090 > >>>Fax (408) 432-3091 > >>> > >>>Accelerate Your Innovation > >>>************************************************************** > >> **