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Re: Does ECOS support CF devices?
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: "Gregg C Levine" <drwho8 at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 12 May 2003 14:50:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Does ECOS support CF devices?
- References: <000901c317d1$65491d40$0100a8c0@who5>
"Gregg C Levine" <drwho8@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> As the subject says, "Does eCos support CF devices?".
Not really. CF presents an IDE interface. The only IDE support we
currently have is in RedBoot, and that is for read-only access to ext2
filesytems on disk.
CF really needs to be formatted with a VFAT filesystem, particularly
if it is going to be moved between different systems. We currently
don't have a VFAT implementation for eCos. I have one started, but it
is very low down on my TODO list.
> What I'm planning is
> to dump the working eCos material, redboot included, to a CF device, and
> thence to my target I386 board. Also I'll be doing extensive testing via
> Bochs, for my configuration. Their notes on the subject of raw devices, and
> the simulator suggest it might work under Linux, and probably not under
> Windows.
>
> For myself, I can't seem to be able to figure out why, but since I normally
> do not do my development for either under Windows, I am not worried.
If they are talking about direct access to a real CF device from Bochs
then I'm not surprised. The Windows Interfaces for this kind of thing
are probably very poor. If you want to just simulate a CF device, then
it should be possible to view is as a straightforward IDE device.
--
Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts
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