01:23:19 | Sammy | morn ing |
01:25:37 | Sammy | get coffee ... |
07:14:39 | mmatten_ | morning |
14:19:02 | prpplague | morning all |
14:19:04 | prpplague | erikm: ! |
14:19:08 | prpplague | erikm: long time no see |
14:19:12 | prpplague | erikm: how are ya dude? |
14:19:19 | erikm | hello prpplague |
14:19:34 | erikm | prpplague: I'm fine, I just have been awfully busy |
14:22:28 | mmatten | <- leaving, have a nice weekend all :) |
14:36:45 | prpplague | erikm: i heard you had a new job |
14:51:24 | erikm | prpplague: that's right. www.bitwizard.nl and www.harddisk-recovery.com |
14:51:58 | prpplague | erikm: i'm surprised it wasn't more embedded stuff |
14:53:28 | erikm | prpplague: we do embedded stuff. ppc project at the moment |
15:00:08 | prpplague | erikm: cool |
15:00:31 | prpplague | erikm: still planning to attend OLS right? |
15:03:22 | erikm | prpplague: *nod* |
15:03:28 | erikm | prpplague: fsck |
15:03:43 | erikm | prpplague: forgot to call the travel agency for the hotel room |
15:03:49 | erikm | prpplague: oh well |
15:06:41 | prpplague | erikm: the suites place still has a couple rooms |
15:08:13 | prpplague | erikm: worst case, i've got one of the large suites, you could always sleep on the pull out bed, lol |
15:09:59 | erikm | lol :) |
16:36:13 | prpplague | erikm: you ever done anything with a pcmcia controler running through a pci-bridge? |
16:38:01 | erikm | prpplague: that's cardbus, not pcmcia |
16:38:31 | erikm | prpplague: and yes, my laptop has such a beast |
16:38:53 | prpplague | erikm: hmm, maybe i'm not saying it correctly |
16:39:32 | prpplague | erikm: this board is using a cl-pd6729 controler that is connected to the pci bus |
16:39:53 | prpplague | erikm: is that cardbus? |
16:45:16 | Russ|werk | morning erikm |
16:50:52 | Russ|werk | erikm: notice any 10/100 ethernet chips for arm lately? |
16:57:22 | erikm | prpplague: most probably. cardbus is backwards compatible with pcmcia |
16:57:28 | erikm | Russ|werk: hi Russ |
16:57:43 | erikm | Russ|werk: afaik there is only still the SMC chip |
17:00:30 | Russ|werk | maybe I can hack together a minimal PCI bus |
17:01:17 | erikm | Russ|werk: that's going to be tough. much easier to take a SA110+companion chip |
17:01:40 | erikm | Russ|werk: PCI is quite a complicated standard |
17:01:51 | Russ|werk | I don't need to implement all of it |
17:02:08 | Russ|werk | just enough to get an rtl8139 going |
17:02:16 | erikm | Russ|werk: not all, but the minimal functions are already quite hard |
17:02:44 | Russ|werk | I take it you'we looked it up |
17:03:00 | erikm | Russ|werk: PCI is not only about the electric connections, the largest part of the standard is about bus arbitration, etc. |
17:07:57 | prpplague | erikm: well, linux running on this board doesn't seem to find the controler, guess they've changed an address or soemthing |
17:08:08 | erikm | prpplague: what does lspci say? |
17:08:56 | prpplague | erikm: i see the pcmcia bridge there |
17:12:51 | erikm | hmm |
17:13:08 | prpplague | it says the io is on f400 irq 9, but doesn't the standard i82365 look at a base of 3e8 ? |
17:13:26 | erikm | prpplague: doesn't it say that it's a cardbus bridge? I'm sure my laptop does |
17:14:08 | erikm | prpplague: a PCI device can be mapped anywhere the kernel (or BIOS) want |
17:14:12 | prpplague | this one labels it- pcmcia bridge: Cirrus Logic CL-PD6729 |
17:14:23 | erikm | prpplague: look it up on www.cirrus.com |
17:15:13 | prpplague | erikm: ya i have the developers guide for the CL-PD6729, but according to the specs, its suppose to be implemented on an isa bus |
17:15:44 | erikm | prpplague: ok, so most probably there is an PCI-ISA bridge |
17:15:57 | erikm | prpplague: which could be hidden in a PLX 9050 or so |
17:17:58 | prpplague | erikm: ahh, i think i've found the problem, the modules only looks for the pcmcia on irqs 1-8 not on 9 where it is currently |
17:18:15 | erikm | prpplague: ah, silly pc-isms |
17:19:08 | prpplague | erikm: thanks |
17:19:34 | prpplague | erikm: it so hard to work around here sometimes with no one to brain storm this stuff with |
17:20:39 | prpplague | still says the pcmcia standard was written by aliens |
17:20:48 | erikm | most standards are |
17:21:03 | erikm | remembers to ritually burn the acpi spec |