Trying a Promise Ultra/66 on powerpc

Tom Rini trini at disparity.net
Wed Jul 28 16:18:09 EST 1999


On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> (A) You can't compile IDE as a module and enable ide-pmac.  There will
> be link errors in pmac_setup.c.
> 
> (B) Very closely tied to that, if ide-pmac is not enabled, a dummy
> pmac_ide_init_hwif_ports() is compiled in pmac_setup.c.  But the real
> version of this function (in ide-pmac.c) does more than just onboard
> IDE specific tasks.  For PCI IDE cards it is still needed.  Enabling
> ide-pmac eventually let me make use of the card.

This is because the ide-pmac option is general IDE support and onboard IDE
on the older macs.  It should be setup ALA x86, so that config_ide or
whatever does yes/no to IDE support and ide-pmac is pmac ide driver only.
The module thing was (i think) fixed or atleast worked around a while
back, check the linuxpp.cs.nmt.edu dirs..

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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