Re: PPC32 - No IDE/ATA devices on new PowerBook

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:55 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> I can't seem to get the kernel to detect the IDE CDROM and Hard-disk  
> at all on the latest (5,8) PowerBook revision - no IDE controller is  
> reported in the dmesg. I have tried 2.6.8 from debian as well as  
> 2.6.12x from Ubuntu and Gentoo.
> 
> Both  the HDD and CDROM drives look fairly routine stuff to me  
> although I am not sure what kind of IDE controller is inside..
> 
> Is there any point in trying newer kernels?

Not yet, I haven't had the machine I ordered yet so I haven't yet had a
chance to investigate/fix the problem. I suppose it's mostly a matter of
adding a new PCI ID to drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c though.

Ben.


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