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diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/cm206 b/Documentation/cdrom/cm206 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..810368f4f7c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cdrom/cm206 @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ +This is the readme file for the driver for the Philips/LMS cdrom drive +cm206 in combination with the cm260 host adapter card. + + (c) 1995 David A. van Leeuwen + +Changes since version 0.99 +-------------------------- +- Interfacing to the kernel is routed though an extra interface layer, + cdrom.c. This allows runtime-configurable `behavior' of the cdrom-drive, + independent of the driver. + +Features since version 0.33 +--------------------------- +- Full audio support, that is, both workman, workbone and cdp work + now reasonably. Reading TOC still takes some time. xmcd has been + reported to run successfully. +- Made auto-probe code a little better, I hope + +Features since version 0.28 +--------------------------- +- Full speed transfer rate (300 kB/s). +- Minimum kernel memory usage for buffering (less than 3 kB). +- Multisession support. +- Tray locking. +- Statistics of driver accessible to the user. +- Module support. +- Auto-probing of adapter card's base port and irq line, + also configurable at boot time or module load time. + + +Decide how you are going to use the driver. There are two +options: + + (a) installing the driver as a resident part of the kernel + (b) compiling the driver as a loadable module + + Further, you must decide if you are going to specify the base port + address and the interrupt request line of the adapter card cm260 as + boot options for (a), module parameters for (b), use automatic + probing of these values, or hard-wire your adaptor card's settings + into the source code. If you don't care, you can choose + autoprobing, which is the default. In that case you can move on to + the next step. + +Compiling the kernel +-------------------- +1) move to /usr/src/linux and do a + + make config + + If you have chosen option (a), answer yes to CONFIG_CM206 and + CONFIG_ISO9660_FS. + + If you have chosen option (b), answer yes to CONFIG_MODVERSIONS + and no (!) to CONFIG_CM206 and CONFIG_ISO9660_FS. + +2) then do a + + make clean; make zImage; make modules + +3) do the usual things to install a new image (backup the old one, run + `rdev -R zImage 1', copy the new image in place, run lilo). Might + be `make zlilo'. + +Using the driver as a module +---------------------------- +If you will only occasionally use the cd-rom driver, you can choose +option (b), install as a loadable module. You may have to re-compile +the module when you upgrade the kernel to a new version. + +Since version 0.96, much of the functionality has been transferred to +a generic cdrom interface in the file cdrom.c. The module cm206.o +depends on cdrom.o. If the latter is not compiled into the kernel, +you must explicitly load it before cm206.o: + + insmod /usr/src/linux/modules/cdrom.o + +To install the module, you use the command, as root + + insmod /usr/src/linux/modules/cm206.o + +You can specify the base address on the command line as well as the irq +line to be used, e.g. + + insmod /usr/src/linux/modules/cm206.o cm206=0x300,11 + +The order of base port and irq line doesn't matter; if you specify only +one, the other will have the value of the compiled-in default. You +may also have to install the file-system module `iso9660.o', if you +didn't compile that into the kernel. + + +Using the driver as part of the kernel +-------------------------------------- +If you have chosen option (a), you can specify the base-port +address and irq on the lilo boot command line, e.g.: + + LILO: linux cm206=0x340,11 + +This assumes that your linux kernel image keyword is `linux'. +If you specify either IRQ (3--11) or base port (0x300--0x370), +auto probing is turned off for both settings, thus setting the +other value to the compiled-in default. + +Note that you can also put these parameters in the lilo configuration file: + +# linux config +image = /vmlinuz + root = /dev/hda1 + label = Linux + append = "cm206=0x340,11" + read-only + + +If module parameters and LILO config options don't work +------------------------------------------------------- +If autoprobing does not work, you can hard-wire the default values +of the base port address (CM206_BASE) and interrupt request line +(CM206_IRQ) into the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/cm206.h. Change +the defines of CM206_IRQ and CM206_BASE. + + +Mounting the cdrom +------------------ +1) Make sure that the right device is installed in /dev. + + mknod /dev/cm206cd b 32 0 + +2) Make sure there is a mount point, e.g., /cdrom + + mkdir /cdrom + +3) mount using a command like this (run as root): + + mount -rt iso9660 /dev/cm206cd /cdrom + +4) For user-mounts, add a line in /etc/fstab + + /dev/cm206cd /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user + + This will allow users to give the commands + + mount /cdrom + umount /cdrom + +If things don't work +-------------------- + +- Try to do a `dmesg' to find out if the driver said anything about + what is going wrong during the initialization. + +- Try to do a `dd if=/dev/cm206cd | od -tc | less' to read from the + CD. + +- Look in the /proc directory to see if `cm206' shows up under one of + `interrupts', `ioports', `devices' or `modules' (if applicable). + + +DISCLAIMER +---------- +I cannot guarantee that this driver works, or that the hardware will +not be harmed, although I consider it most unlikely. + +I hope that you'll find this driver in some way useful. + + David van Leeuwen + david@tm.tno.nl + +Note for Linux CDROM vendors +----------------------------- +You are encouraged to include this driver on your Linux CDROM. If +you do, you might consider sending me a free copy of that cd-rom. +You can contact me through my e-mail address, david@tm.tno.nl. +If this driver is compiled into a kernel to boot off a cdrom, +you should actually send me a free copy of that cd-rom. + +Copyright +--------- +The copyright of the cm206 driver for Linux is + + (c) 1995 David A. van Leeuwen + +The driver is released under the conditions of the GNU general public +license, which can be found in the file COPYING in the root of this +source tree. |