Dear Ayman El-Khashab, In message <4adc055c.6080...@elkhashab.com> you wrote: > I am using a recent version of u-boot (git from the past couple of > weeks) and have an LSI SAS adapter on a canyonlands board. > What I see happening is that u-boot reads the bist bit, then does > numerous bar accesses, then sets the bist fail and latency words. > Once the bist is set to fail, the lsi adapter doesn't respond to > anything else and so Linux fails to see it when it boots. I've tried > turning > off pcie support in u-boot, in that case the bist did not get written > but Linux kernel crashed during the init of the adapter. The LSI > adapter does work fine in a ubuntu PC, so the hardware is likely good. > This adapter is an LSISAS2008 gen 2 pcie board. On the > PC it uses both IO and MEM spaces.
Did you try setting the "pciscandelay" variable? Try setting it to 5 (or 10) [seconds]. See also commit 6efc1fc0b63e55f94c5bc61d8dd23c918e3bc778 Author: Grzegorz Bernacki <g...@semihalf.com> Date: Fri Sep 7 18:35:37 2007 +0200 [PPC440SPe] PCIe environment settings for Katmai and Yucca - 'pciconfighost' is set by default in order to be able to scan bridges behind the primary host/PCIe - 'pciscandelay' env variable is recognized to allow for user-controlled delay before the PCIe bus enumeration; some peripheral devices require a significant delay before they can be scanned (e.g. LSI8408E); without the delay they are not detected Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Bernacki <g...@semihalf.com> Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." - M. Devine, Computer Science 340 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot