[LinuxBIOS] getting sata disk working

[Savchenko Mikhail]

Working with Linuxbios on tyan s2850, want to use built in si3114
controller, can I use the drivers from LinuxBios sources or must use driver
from base Ami bios part?

The same question about Ati video interesting to, there is a driver in
LinusBios sources, can I use it instead of Ami bios part one?

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:43:40PM +0400, Savchenko Mikhail wrote:
> Working with Linuxbios on tyan s2850, want to use built in si3114 controller,
> can I use the drivers from LinuxBios sources or must use driver from base Ami
> bios part?

You don't need the AMI code. The s2881/s2882 have the same controller, and it
works without any special support in LinuxBIOS as far as I know - and
definitely without the sii3114 option rom from the proprietary BIOS.

What exactly is your problem with the sata controller - are you having issues
with FILO or beyond that, when booting the kernel?
> The same question about Ati video interesting to, there is a driver in
> LinusBios sources, can I use it instead of Ami bios part one?

If you want vga, you will probably need to use the ATI video bios. You'll
need to extract it from the proprietary bios. Have a look at the build
tutorial for the s2881/s2882, it's explained there how to do this.

Thanks,
Ward.

[Jeremy Jackson]

Hi,

I'm using the LinuxBIOS  ragexl support, combined with linux framebuffer
driver "atyfb".  Doing it this way is 100% native, no vendor BIOS is
needed, but you don't get video until linux has booted.

Config.lb looks like this
       device pci 8.0 on end # SATA 0
       device pci 9.0 on end # PCI
            chip drivers/ati/ragexl
                 device pci 5.0 on end
            end

The other option is to have LinuxBIOS use the vendor BIOS to initialize
the rageXL chip, you get video earlier but you need to enable the
emulator and retrieve the vendor bios,

http://linuxbios.org/VGA_support

Regards,

Jeremy

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:43 +0400, Savchenko Mikhail wrote:
> Working with Linuxbios on tyan s2850, want to use...
> The same question about Ati video interesting to, there is a driver in
> LinusBios sources, can I use it instead of Ami bios part one?

[yhlu]

You could use btext console in LinuxBIOS for it. The etherboot (with
filo) should still include btext console too.

YH

On 5/31/07, Jeremy Jackson  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the LinuxBIOS  ragexl support, combined with linux framebuffer
> driver "atyfb".  Doing it this way is 100% native, no vendor BIOS is
> needed, but you don't get video until linux has booted.
>
> Config.lb looks like this
>        device pci 8.0 on end # SATA 0
>        device pci 9.0 on end # PCI
>             chip drivers/ati/ragexl
>                  device pci 5.0 on end
>             end
>
> The other option is to have LinuxBIOS use the vendor BIOS to initialize
> the rageXL chip, you get video earlier but you need to enable the
> emulator and retrieve the vendor bios,
>
> http://linuxbios.org/VGA_support
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:43 +0400, Savchenko Mikhail wrote:
> > Working with Linuxbios on tyan s2850, want to use...
> > The same question about Ati video interesting to, there is a driver in
> > LinusBios sources, can I use it instead of Ami bios part one?