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Re: Beginner question
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Krishna Ganugapati <krishnag at marakicorp dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:16:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Beginner question
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <200401271803.26899.roland.cassebohm@visionsystems.de> <20040216162735.GD29388@lunn.ch> <008401c3f4de$4acdbc60$6501a8c0@KRISHNAGLAP>
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 15:43, Krishna Ganugapati wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious to know what kind of PCI-IDE (ATAPI)support is available for
> eCOS/RedBoot. We are building a custom board based on the IXP425 and we'd
> like to boot our main OS off the IDE disk drive. Our board uses a
> CMD-PCI680A IDE controller. I downloaded eCOS2.0 and notice that it has
> support for enumerating and reading/writing to PCI devices, but nowhere is
> there information on what kind of storage devices eCOS supports.
>
> In the event, there is no such support, could someone point me to
> recommended documentation to writing such drivers. Are there any template
> drivers available?
RedBoot does support booting from IDE devices. Currently, eCos itself
has only limited support for similar devices.
Try looking at the uE250 port (hal/arm/xscale/uE250). Note: you'll need
the latest CVS repository (*not* 2.0) for this.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates
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