Re: [linuxsh-dev] non volatile memory for SH3

[Greg B. <gb...@po...>]

"Studencki (external) Pawel" wrote:
> 
> Hello,


G'day Pawel

  Sorry about the delay replying; I've been very very busy.

> 1) I'm going to buy some non volitale memory for my EBX7709 development
> board working with SH3.
> The memory has to be a PC-Card, because I want to connect it via PCMCIA
> interface. In future it should be possible to mount a file system on this
> FLASH Card. Could somebody recommend me such a FLASH memory? I think, there
> are two main possibilities:
> - Compact FLASH or
> - FlashDrive

  We're using SanDisk 20MB PCMCIA ATA cards here.  They work fine.

> Which is easier to use with SH3? I hope to use an existing PCMCIA patches
> for SH3 without porting any other drivers.
> Could you share your experience with this problem?
> 
> 2) With the same PCMCIA interface, I'm going to connect a network card
> (NE2000 compatible). Does somebody works with similar hardware
> configuration? Which kernel? do I have to use moduitls?

  We have a Socket Low-Power Ethernet PCMCIA card, it works fine.
It's basically NE2000 compatible; the existing Linux driver code
(pcnet_cs.o, ne2k.o, 8390.o) work without modification on our SH4.
This is using a recent sourceforge CVS kernel (actually from 26
September).
You *will* need to use modutils; the Linux pcmcia code relies on it
(I found I couldn't compile it except as a module, but ymmv).  Ask
David McKay to post his SuperH port of modutils 2.3.7 and perhaps
someone
can port it to a more modern modutils.


Greg.
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