Gary Smith wrote: [snip] > I am using a BCM91250A evaluation board with a compactflash device connected > to the onboard IDE controller. When booting with a Linux 2.4.20 kernel, the > IDE interface is recognized and the compactflash device is hda. When > booting with a Linux 2.6.16.25 kernel, the IDE interface is recognized, but > no device information is echoed to the console. I've included output below. > The message post above mentions that there were problems with the IDE driver > in Linux 2.6 during the late 2004 time-frame. I'd like to inquire about the > current availability of the IDE driver in the kernel. The SWARM onboard IDE works for me with the appended patch. (Originally from Peter Horton <pdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.) Thiemo --- a/drivers/ide/mips/swarm.c +++ b/drivers/ide/mips/swarm.c @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static int __devinit swarm_ide_probe(str memcpy(hwif->io_ports, hwif->hw.io_ports, sizeof(hwif->io_ports)); hwif->irq = hwif->hw.irq; + probe_hwif_init(hwif); dev_set_drvdata(dev, hwif); return 0;
