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- In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.970820100943.16278A-100000@lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk>, Ja
- mes Craig writes:
- >I've got two A3000s with ARM3s and 4Mb kicking around here, which I
- >*think* are just within the minimum specification for running ARM linux.
- >The only problem I've got right now is that the IDE interfaces on them are
- >watford ones, which aren't supported. I have had a look through the IDEFS
- >code for the boards, and I think I can get the addresses for all the basic
- >IDE registers. There doesn't appear to be any interrupt support on the
- >board whatsoever, looking at the hardware. Is it likely that I'll be able
- >to hack the kernel into running with this IDE interface? (I'm used to
- >messing with the kernel on x86 machines, and I've pretty much got the
- >kernel cross-compiling OK... Still a little problem with DMA.)
-
- You should be OK. A basic IDE interface is pretty simple. If you can find
- out the addresses of the registers then the chances are good that it will work.
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- Are you sure about the interrupt support? I'd be surprised if there really
- wasn't any. What signs are you looking for on the hardware?
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