Re: [PATCH] Determine SCx200 CB address at run-time

From: Henrik Brix Andersen
Date: Thu Feb 24 2005 - 07:39:43 EST


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:53 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> The current SCx200 drivers use a fixed base address of 0x9000 for the
> Configuration Block, but some systems (at least the Soekris net4801)
> uses a base address of 0x6000. This patch first tries the fixed address
> then - if no configuration block could be found - tries the address
> written to the Configuration Block Address Scratchpad register by the
> BIOS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@xxxxxxxxxx>

I see that this didn't make it into linux-2.6.11-rc5. Please re-consider
for -rc6 as the SCx200 drivers are useless on Soekris Engineering
hardware without this patch.

Sincerely,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@xxxxxxxxxx>
Gentoo Linux

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