Hi Alex, so u mean to say i need not enable it in PPCBOOT , yes i want t use CF as IDE , correct me i fI am wrong Thanks A Lot SOmshekar On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 Graf Alex wrote : >do i need to first detect it on my PPCBOOT , or can I make it >DETECT directly from LINUX > >> it depends on what u want. >If u want only IDE support, no hotplug, u have to setup the >PCMCIA registers >in ppcboot. The driver/pcmcia/ide-m8xx.c reads out the PCMCIA >register and >remaps the io windows for IDE access. This is the simple way and >it works >with www.denx.de ELDK. >for hotplug, the register setup (for linux) is in >driver/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c. U can set up the PCMCIA registers >for ppcboot, >but it's not necesary. Then u need the pcmcia-cs package. This is >the tricky >way and, depends on ur kernel, is not supported on all kernel >versions! > >cheers > >Alex Graf > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/