[coreboot] alix1c PATA

Ulf Jordan jordan at chalmers.se
Sat May 3 14:43:30 CEST 2008


On Sat, 3 May 2008, Peter Stuge wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:49:03PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
>>>  Is there a special trick? Does v3 disable PATA?
>>>  (It is enabled by default from reset.)
>>
>> I'm afraid you are in new territory. I have only booted the CF.
>
> I'm trying to boot CF too. FILO loads the kernel fine.
>
>
>> Oh wait it shouldn't matter -- you moved the jumper right?
>> Isn't it all jumper based?
>
> Jumper still on "ON=CF master"
>
>
>> can you try with a cf root just to see if that works at all?
>
> ========== mainboard_pre_payload: done =========================================
> FILO version 0.5 (stuge at n410c) Thu Jan 24 04:17:59 CET 2008
> boot: hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
> hda: LBA 1025MB: SanDisk SDCFX3-1024
> Mounted ext2fs
> Found Linux version 2.6.25 (stuge at n410c) #1 PREEMPT Sat May 3 06:26:40 CEST 2008 bzImage.
> Loading kernel... ok
> Jumping to entry point...
> Linux version 2.6.25 (stuge at n410c) (gcc version 4.2.2 (Gentoo 4.2.2 p1.0)) #1 PREEMPT Sat May 3 06:26:40 CEST 2008

[...]

> Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> pata_cs5536: disabled by BIOS

Hmm, I wonder if this is something coreboot has disabled or not enabled?
drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c:244 tests a bit in the IDE config register of 
CS5536.

/ulf




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