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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Determine SCx200 CB address at run-time
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    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@gentoo.org>

    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@gentoo.org>
    Gentoo Linux
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