Re: [LinuxBIOS] Enabling USB 2.0

[yhlu]

those two are working on FILO?

YH

On 9/2/06, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Lu, Yinghai  [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
> > 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.
> > 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
> >
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> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > On Behalf Of Anil B G
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 8:40 AM
> > To: Jonathan Sturges
> > Cc: [e-mail]
> > 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  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
> >