* Lu, Yinghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060901 18:27]: > You can not boot from sata on ck804, the reason is that the sata controller > can > not work on compatible mode. If you real want to boot from SATA > > 1. you need to porting driver from kernel to FILO_IN_ETHERBOOT to make use > simple scsi interface to access the sata disk.
or to the real filo. USB and SATA have both been backported. > 2. or easy way is boot one tiny kernel ( with ck804 sata support and kexec > support) from IDE(FILO, Etherboot), USB(FILO_IN_ETHERBOOT), Network > (Etherboot) and use kexec tools to boot the kernel on your SATA disk. > > > > Current USB IRQ setting in LinuxBIOS should be good enough to make use device > working. Please make sure setting on mptable.c is right. Also you may need to > set apic for kernel to enable io-apic to be used. > > > > YH > > > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Anil B G > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 8:40 AM > To: Jonathan Sturges > Cc: linuxbios@linuxbios.org > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Enabling USB 2.0 > > > > Thanks. I plan to boot from SATA and not from USB. Do any other boards > supported by LinuxBIOS (whose source is available in the source tree) bringup > USB that I could use as a reference? > > On 9/1/06, Jonathan Sturges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anil B G wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to enable USB on a board similar to Tyan s2892 (CK804) > > chipset? > > Is there anything that else that needs to be done separately other > > than setting the irqs et al correctly? Specifically do we need to > > write some sort of a driver to enable the USB host controller. > > > > Thanks > > Anil > > > Assuming you don't hope to boot from USB, all you really should need is > to setup the IRQ map, AFAIK. Then the Linux kernel will detect it and > be able to attach the appropriate driver. > > -Jonathan > > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > linuxbios@linuxbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • http://www.coresystems.de/ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios