[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Abit BE6-II V2.0 support

Sergei Antonov saproj at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 09:12:01 CET 2007


On Dec 13, 2007 2:06 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 2:38 PM, Sergei Antonov <saproj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > 1. The keyboard doesn't work. Here is a piece of log from the serial port:
> > =====================================
> > PNP: 03f0.5 init
> > Keyboard init...
> > Keyboard input buffer would not empty
> > =====================================
>
> hmm. Are you sure you know where the kb is connected?

Pretty sure that I connected it to the PS/2 keyboard port.

> > 2. I had to change filo-0.5\drivers\ide.c function
> > 'find_ide_controller'. For some reason it first looks for IDE
> > controller with class 0x0180 and only if nothing was found looks for
> > class 0x0101. I think it is wrong, but where can I report about that?
> > It worked right for me after this change:
> > -dev = pci_find_device(-1, -1, 0x0180, -1, pci_index); // S-ATA first.
> > +dev = 0;
>
> interesting! I wonder what the right thing to do here is? You are
> arguing to prefer sata over pata, right? Where does this leave cdroms
> as on my shuttles?

I'm arguing to prefer the order of drives which the kernel uses when
assigns hda, hdb and so on.
I don't see the problem with cdroms. Can you explain it?

> can you send a more complete patch?

The patch is attached. It works correctly on my computer with both hda
(sits on 0x0101) and hde (sits on 0x0180).
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