Trying a Promise Ultra/66 on powerpc

David A. Gatwood dgatwood at mvista.com
Mon Aug 9 15:18:28 EST 1999


On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> > I've solved the problem by adding the right offset directly to the
> > io-port values as found in the kernel's PCI structures. I think this
> > needs more serious rework, though. Paul, are you the author of the
> > PowerMac IDE stuff? So we can work this out... 
> 
> Yep, for my sins. :-) :-)
> 
> Also, does anyone know how a quick way to get the best DMA cycle
> timing values in a tuneproc?

You mean for IDE?  Check the MkLinux driver.  One of Apple's folks ported
some OS X (server?) code in for IDE DMA timings a couple months back.


David


[[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list.  Replies are ]]
[[ not  forced  back  to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]]
[[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]]
[[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting.   ]]





More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list