Re: [coreboot] Test SeaBIOS AHCI support

[Neo The User]

Hello! New patch :) Sorry about that, I have little to no experience with subversion. Also I found out that the rebooting loop wasn't caused by the AHCI SATA being off, but rather the console level for serial output was below 7 in the coreboot config file... I found it very strange.

Anyway, the real result of having AHCI SATA off in SeaBIOS causes the payload to just hang, before it says to press F12. With it on, I can access GRUB but I get kernel panics in any Linux distro. NetBSD also fails.

I attached a new patch, using svn copy and such from Tilapia, keeping almost everything the same in the diff. After creating the diff, I poked around a bit more, but I couldn't solve the kernel panics.

This isn't really a big concern for me personally but I thought it would be cool to have a board with over 1,100 reviews on newegg that would be supported by Coreboot. Might spark some attention as well.

-Alec

--- On Tue, 1/4/11, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> From: Peter Stuge 
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Test SeaBIOS AHCI support
> To: [e-mail]
> Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 11:45 AM
> Hi Alec,
>
> Neo The User wrote:
> > I have attached the somewhat working port as a patch
> > (ma785gm-us2h.patch)
>
> Cool!
> > I hope the patch format is correct!
>
> Well, I'd say no. It is impossible to review this patch
> because it
> duplicates (nearly) all code for another board.
>
> It would be very good if you could start with a patch that
> is simply
> a diff from the ma785gmt board.
>
> Finally, when copying files later, into the new ma785gm
> directory,
> please make sure to use svn to do copies, so that patches
> become much
> smaller, or at the very least that the history is kept.
>
> But please first start with a diff against an existing
> board. If the
> differences are small enough maybe the same code can handle
> both boards.
>
> //Peter