Re: [coreboot] legacybios update

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:13:34PM -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:02:13 -0400, Kevin O'Connor 
> wrote:
> > A more detailed analysis of filo shows that it has a more advanced
> > ide init (it does a pci scan for ide controllers and it has
> > "floating bus detection").  I'm going to work on advancing the
> > "legacybios" code to also do this.
>
> When you say the ide init is more advanced than filo...

I think you misunderstood me - filo ide code is more advanced than the
"legacybios" code.
> Does it do cable detection (40 conducter vs 80 conductor needed for
> ATA/66/100/133)?

I'm not all that familiar with low level ata details.  Both filo and
"legacybios" use PIO mode - I didn't think cable detection mattered.

-Kevin