Re: filo on Tyan s2880

[YhLu]

SONE,

What is the FIFO URL and the status?

Is it some kind payload for LinuxBIOS?

Regards

YH.

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[e-mail]] 
发送时间: 2003年10月30日 4:33
收件人: SONE Takeshi
抄送: [e-mail]
主题: Re: filo on Tyan s2880

* SONE Takeshi  [031030 13:25]:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:40:02PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > SONE Takeshi  [031030 11:40]:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:34:29AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > > I am using an etherboot payload that reads an elf image from
> > > > the first sectors on the disk. This works fine, I put filo there
> > > > so I can load a kernel from any filesystem. Unfortunately filo seems
> > > > to find no IDE controller, it says IDE channel 0 not found.
> > > > Etherboot and Linux can see the ide controller though (it's on bus

1)
> > > Maybe the problem is with my PCI code.
> > > Please send me the output log with DEBUG_ALL.
> >
> > You only seem to scan bus 0:
>
> Ok..
> My PCI scan routine starts from bus 0, and recurses when PCI bridges are
> found.  I think I took this algorithm from pciutils.
>
> However your board has only host bridges on bus 0, so FILO doesn't know
> if bus 1 exists.
>
> I checked Etherboot and it just scans bus 0 to 255 unconditionally.
> I don't know which is better.
> Anyway attached patch changes the PCI scan to Etherboot way.

Thanks. with this patch it also works using PCI.

Stefan