Re: [LinuxBIOS] Slow SATA on Tyan s2891 with LinuxBIOS

[Lu, Yinghai]

Just got back.

YH

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:48 PM
To: yhlu
Cc: Greg Johnson; [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Slow SATA on Tyan s2891 with LinuxBIOS

Hi Yinghai,

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:04:08AM +0800, yhlu wrote:
> I will revisit the s2891 support next week.

Any progress yet?

Thanks,
Ward.
> On 2/3/06, Ward Vandewege  wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:46:18PM -0700, Greg Johnson wrote:
> > > I am booting with Etherboot v5.4.1.
> >
> > OK, same here.
> > > LinuxBIOS is from November
> > > sometime.  I think this version is from Yh Lu.  He helped with

getting
> > > it to work.  I just tried to build it from the current (r2169)

svn, and
> > > it doesn't boot:
> > >
> > > LinuxBIOS-1.1.8_s2891_Normal Thu Feb  2 22:15:06 UTC 2006

starting...
> > > (0,1) link=01
> > > (1,0) link=00
> > > 02 nodes initialized.
> > >  core0:  --- {  APICID = 12 NODEID = 01 COREID = 00} ---
> > > SBLink=00
> > > NC node|link=00
> > > NC node|link=02
> > >         busn=40
> > > ht reset -
> >
> > Yeah, that's what I'm seeing too - 10 to 30 seconds into the boot

process. So
> > I guess I'm not alone then.