Re: [Ltib] Compact Flash on MPC8349ITX?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Chip,

For support of iso images, you may get some help from the experts for
this system at Freescale by following these steps:

   * go to http://www.freescale.com
   * click on "Support / Technical support"
   * click on "Submit a Service Request"
   * register to get a user name and password.
   * login in with your user name and password
   * on the "New Service Request" page:
      * category = Technical Request
      * topic = Linux BSP
      * Click on "Continue"
   * fill out the information for the service request
   * click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page.

Is this a PCMCIA Flash card? what connector does it plug into?

Regards, Stuart


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:43 -0600, Chip Webb wrote:
> Hello LTIB Gurus!
> 
> I'm trying to get the Compact Flash interface on the MPC8349ITX board to 
> work.
> I have downloaded from the Freescale website the LTIB MPC8349ITX dated
> 20070212 and programmed u-boot and that works fine. I can get u-boot
> to display the partition table of the Compact Flash card I inserted (ide 
> part), and
> can read sectors (ide read) from it into RAM. It also prints a nice 
> message when
> booting telling me the serial number, manufacturer name and size
> of the CF card. So I think u-boot is working fine.
> 
> I have also built a linux kernel and booted it by TFTP/NFS without 
> difficulty.
> I am not trying to boot directly from the compact flash card yet. That 
> is a step
> that I will tackle later. All I want at this stage is to be able to 
> access files
> on the compact flash drive by mounting the device into an already
> running Linux system.
> 
> But now that the kernel is booted, I don't know how to access the CF card
> (as /dev/hda[1-4]?). The kernel is the same as in the BSP mentioned
> above (2.6.13). Nothing is printed about the compact flash during the 
> kernel's
> boot process. I found some kernel options related to PCMCIA, but don't
> think that's what I want to try. (I tried them anyway out of desperation
> but they didn't help).
> 
> I suspect that either I need to enable one or more options in building
> the kernel and/or enable one or more packages while building LTIB.
> I would appreciate any help anyone can provide to point me in the
> right direction.
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> Chip Webb
> 
> 
> 
> 
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